Buchbeschreibung Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \* Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize \* A New Yorker Best Book of the Year \* A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice \* Nominated for the Women s Prize for Fiction \* I m in love with a grieving misfit driving around with a donkey-shaped pi�ata in an old van held together by duct tape the great miracle of McKenzie s writing is how she manages to transform misery into gentle humor darkly hilarious. The Washington Post An addictive read with an ultimately hopeful core that recalls Haruki Murakami, Sayaka Murata, Richard Brautigan, and Miranda July Sanjena Sathian, author of Gold DiggersPenny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she s quit her job. Hermother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five yearsago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmotherDr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worsein the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what s possible when allelse fails.Elizabeth McKenzie, the National Book Award nominated authorofThe Portable Veblen, follows Penny on her quest for a fresh start. Therewill be a road trip in the Dog of the North, an old van with ginghamcurtains, a pi�ata, and stiff brakes. There will be injury and peril. Therewill be a dog named Kweecoats and two brothers who may share atoupee. There will be questions: Why is a detective investigating hergrandmother. What is the Scintillator And can Penny recognize agood thing when it finally comes her way This slyly humorous, thoroughly winsome novel finds the purpose in life s curveballs, insisting that even when we are painfully warped by those we love most, we can be brought closer to our truest selves. Artikel-Nr. 9780593300695

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The Dog of the North

Elizabeth McKenzie

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group (2023)

ISBN 10: 0593300696 ISBN 13: 9780593300695

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: New. Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of the novel The Portable Veblen, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and shortlisted for the Baileys Women&rsquos Prize a collection, Stop That Girl, shortlisted for The Story Prize and . Artikel-Nr. 604590125