Idiopathy - A Novel
Author(s): Sam Byers
A debut novel of love, narcissism, and ailing cattle
Idiopathy (?d?'?p?i): a disease or condition which arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown.
Idiopathyis a novel that is as unexpected as its title, in which Katherine, Daniel, and Nathan--three characters you won't forget in a hurry--unsuccessfully try to figure out how they feel about one another and how they might best live their lives in a world gone mad. Featuring a mysterious cattle epidemic, a humiliating stint in rehab, an unwanted pregnancy, a mom-turned-media personality ("Mother Courage"), and a workplace with a bio-dome housing a perfectly engineered cornfield, it is at once a scathing satire and a moving meditation on love and loneliness. With unusual verbal finesse and great humor, Sam Byers neatly skewers the tangled relationships and unhinged narcissism of a self-obsessed generation in a remarkable, uproarious first novel.
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- : Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- : Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- : 0.01
- : 03 June 2014
- : .72 Inches X 5.25 Inches X 8 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Sam Byers
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 320