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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-101594489521

ISBN-139781594489525

eBay Product ID (ePID)61645289

Product Key Features

Book TitleKept Man

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Family Life, Literary

Publication Year2007

GenreFiction

AuthorJami Attenberg

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight13.4 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2007-017392

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Written in relaxed yet fresh prose, Attenberg's debut is unabashedly emotional, refreshingly devoid of New York City cynicism, and tenderly funny." -- People "Told with wit and verve...The Kept Man is a challenge to apathy-it's a novel about remaining constructive in the face of personal change."-- Interview "Attenberg knows how to tell a story that's both socially relevant and a fun read." - Venuszine "Attenberg gets gallery-land down cold; she also writes of longing and mourning with extraordinary heart...A likable novel marked by a profundity of feeling."-- Kirkus Reviews

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisNow in paperback, from the author of the bestselling "The Middlesteins" the novel that's "unabashedly emotional, refreshingly devoid of New York City cynicism, and tenderly funny?" ("People"). Jarvis Miller's artist husband has been in a coma for six years. And so, Jarvis has spent these years suspended between hope and grief, paralyzed with longing for a life and a marriage that are slipping away. But then, unexpectedly, Jarvis makes her first new friends in years when she meets the Kept Man Club: three men whose lifestyles are funded by their successful wives, who gather once a week on laundry day. With their help, she reawakens to the city beyond her Brooklyn apartment, past the pitying eyes of her husband's art dealer and his irresponsible best friend as her future begins to take on the irresistible tingles of possibility for the first time in almost a decade. When a shocking discovery casts a different light on her idealized marriage, she's propelled even further down a path that she would never have dared to imagine just months before. Tender, bold, and unabashed, "The Kept Man" is a compulsively readable novel about love and loss from one of our most dynamic new storytellers., Now in paperback, from the author of the bestselling The Middlesteins : the novel that's "unabashedly emotional, refreshingly devoid of New York City cynicism, and tenderly funny?" ( People ). Jarvis Miller's artist husband has been in a coma for six years. And so, Jarvis has spent these years suspended between hope and grief, paralyzed with longing for a life and a marriage that are slipping away. But then, unexpectedly, Jarvis makes her first new friends in years when she meets the Kept Man Club: three men whose lifestyles are funded by their successful wives, who gather once a week on laundry day. With their help, she reawakens to the city beyond her Brooklyn apartment, past the pitying eyes of her husband's art dealer and his irresponsible best friend as her future begins to take on the irresistible tingles of possibility for the first time in almost a decade. When a shocking discovery casts a different light on her idealized marriage, she's propelled even further down a path that she would never have dared to imagine just months before. Tender, bold, and unabashed, The Kept Man is a compulsively readable novel about love and loss from one of our most dynamic new storytellers.

LC Classification NumberPS3601.T784K47 2007