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Spheres of Disturbance

Published
Apr 2014
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General Fiction General Fiction
Pages
280

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Helen is dying. Helen is choosing to die. Over the course of one day in 1985, those who surround her—among them her daughter, an art thief, a high-strung housewife and crochet artist, a lesbian poet, and a pregnant Vietnamese pot-bellied pig—grapple with her impending end. In nine revolving points of view, they resist or accept, impact or impede the trajectories of Helen's death in the world around them, tracing the mark of a culture that tries, desperately and impossibly, to deny death. By turns haunting, sensual, and brilliantly cunning, Spheres of Disturbance explores how we can bear to approach, or even choose, our inevitable end.

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First Edition Apr 2014 Arktoi ISBN13 9780989036115 ISBN10 0989036111
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Apr 2014 Red Hen Press ISBN13 9781597092999 ISBN10 1597092991
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Apr 2014 Arktoi ISBN10 B00JP5NRQU
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