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ISBN
9781324086499

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
1324086491
ISBN-13
9781324086499
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27065003607

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dayswork : a Novel
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Biographical
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Fiction
Author
Jennifer Habel, Chris Bachelder
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.4 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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I was equally charmed and fascinated by Dayswork, this slender but capacious book about marriage and solitude, about Melville and Hawthorne, about literature and obsession and whether they might not be the same thing. Wry, intimate, and wholly original, the novel surprised me and edified me with every page I eagerly turned., [W]hat makes the novel so moving...is how Bachelder and Habel distill history down into a kind of personal microcosm., Bachelder and Habel have created a curious, heady cocktail of a quarantine novel that feels like a buoyant literary memoir, a surprising and exhilarating inquiry into the pleasures and pitfalls of literature, obsession, collaboration, and love, all relayed with piquant wit and thrilling insight., How to describe this deeply moving and entirely original book? Dayswork is at once a portrait of a marriage, a meditation on art and ambition, a pandemic novel, a middle-age comedy, a brilliant collage of Herman Melville, and a tour de force of collaborative writing. Above all, it is a love story. Out of the most difficult times and unlikely materials, Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel have created something that can only be described as extraordinary., Bachelder and Habel weave a deft, subtle family drama out of one woman's obsessive immersion in the wonderful and frightening world of Herman Melville., The perfect book for a subdivided brain?a lovingly curated smorgasbord of Melville arcana lightly masquerading as a pandemic novel., The perfect book for a subdivided brain--a lovingly curated smorgasbord of Melville arcana lightly masquerading as a pandemic novel., The words seem to bob on a sea of blank white pages, the ideas come together elegantly and with a deadpan timing., What makes the novel so moving...is how Bachelder and Habel distill history down into a kind of personal microcosm., [T]he perfect book for a subdivided brain--a lovingly curated smorgasbord of Melville arcana lightly masquerading as a pandemic novel., A clever mash-up of a fictionalized memoir, a meditation on a literary forebear, and a portrait of a marriage...Dayswork is a supremely literate achievement that wears its erudition lightly., Weird and wonderful, [Dayswork] immediately casts a spell.... It's the kind of book you miss as soon as it's over., Weird and wonderful, a novel in verse that immediately casts a spell and keeps it going until the last little missive. It's the kind of book you miss as soon as it's over, its sway and power nearly as mysterious and unlikely as that of a leviathan tome about whaling...[I]t brings to mind Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own as much as Moby-Dick., A brief, illuminating book about Melville and marriage...[T]he words seem to bob on a sea of blank white pages, the ideas come together elegantly and with a deadpan timing., Dayswork is a wonder. I cannot think of another book, another reading experience, entirely like this one. It is suffused with the pleasures of reading, of immersion, of companionship in all its forms., Probing and often hilarious and deeply revealing ... Genius. Must reading. The best book of the year., How to describe this deeply moving and entirely original book Dayswork is at once a portrait of a marriage, a meditation on art and ambition, a pandemic novel, a middle-age comedy, a brilliant collage of Herman Melville, and a tour de force of collaborative writing. Above all, it is a love story. Out of the most difficult times and unlikely materials, Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel have created something that can only be described as extraordinary.
Synopsis
In the endless days of the pandemic, a woman spends her time sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. As she delves into Melville's impulsive purchase of a Massachusetts farmhouse, his fevered revision of Moby-Dick there, his intense friendship with neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne, and his troubled and troubling marriage to Elizabeth Shaw, she becomes increasingly obsessed by what his devotion to his art reveals about cost, worth, and debt. Her preoccupation both deepens and expands, and her days' work extends outward to an orbiting cast of Melvillean questers and fanatics, as well as to biographers and writers--among them Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell--whose lives resonate with Melville's. As she pulls these distant figures close, her quarantine quest ultimately becomes a midlife reckoning with her own marriage and ambition. Absorbing, charming, and intimate, Dayswork considers the blurry lines between life and literature, the slippage between what happens and what gets recorded, and the ways we locate ourselves in the lives of others. In wry, epigrammatic prose, Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel have crafted an exquisite and daring novel., An NPR "Books We Love" Pick * A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year * A Paris Review Staff Favorite * A Chicago Public Library Must-Read Book * A Seattle Public Library Staff Favorite of the Year * A Nashville Public Library Top Ten Book of the Year "A supremely literate achievement." --Heller McAlpin, Wall Street Journal A startlingly original, incantatory novel about marriage, mortality, and making art.

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