- Cowardice, Families, Family, Fiction
The sky is falling for the Caspers, a family of cowards: for Jonathan, a paleontologist, searching in vain for a prehistoric giant squid; for his wife, Madeline, an animal behaviorist with a failing experiment; for their daughter, Amelia, a disappointed teenage revolutionary; for her younger sister, Thisbe, on a frustrated search for God; and for grandfather Henry, who wants to disappear, limiting himself to thirteen…
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Contemporary, contemplative, spare and intimate.
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Joe Meno
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Co., Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., Pan Macmillan
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393304565
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