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PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

ISBN-101590171675

ISBN-139781590171677

eBay Product ID (ePID)4472853

Product Key Features

Book TitleWhat's for Dinner?

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral

Publication Year2005

GenreFiction

AuthorJames Schuyler

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight7.7 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-013037

Reviews"James Schuyler's sublimely sad and funny novel, What's for Dinner? looks back at Cranford and Madame Bovary and forward to present-day dysfunctional households like those of"Desperate Housewives." It's wonderful to have it back in print." - John Ashbery "A quietly scarifying, very funny, and wonderfully compassionate novel." - Stephen Spender "What's for Dinner? is a comedy of manners all about alcoholism, insanity, adultery, drugs, moderate incest, and death. [It is] a great gift to the reader." -Alice Notley, "James Schuylerâ€™s sublimely sad and funny novel, Whatâ€™s for Dinner? looks back at Cranford and Madame Bovary and forward to present-day dysfunctional households like those ofâ€�Desperate Housewives.â€� Itâ€™s wonderful to have it back in print." - John Ashbery "A quietly scarifying, very funny, and wonderfully compassionate novel." - Stephen Spender "Whatâ€™s for Dinner? is a comedy of manners all about alcoholism, insanity, adultery, drugs, moderate incest, and death. [It is] a great gift to the reader." -Alice Notley

Dewey Edition22

Afterword byMcCourt, James

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SynopsisJames Schuyler's utterly original What's for Dinner? features a cast of characters who appear to have escaped from a Norman Rockwell painting to run amok. In tones that are variously droll, deadpan, and lyrical, Schuyler tells a story that revolves around three small-town American households. The Delehanteys are an old-fashioned Catholic family whose twin teenage boys are getting completely out of hand, no matter that their father is hardly one to spare the rod. Childless Norris and Lottie Taylor have been happily married for years, even as Lottie has been slowly drinking herself to death. Mag, a recent widow, is on the prowl for love. Retreating to an institution to dry out, Lottie finds herself caught up in a curious comedy of group therapy manners. At the same time, however, she begins an ascent from the depths of despair--illuminated with the odd grace and humor that readers of Schuyler's masterful poetry know so well--to a new understanding, that will turn her into an improbable redeemer within an unlikely world. "What's for Dinner?" is among the most delightful and unusual works of American literature. Charming and dark, off-kilter but pedestrian, mercurial yet matter-of-fact, Schuyler's novel is an alluring invention that captures both the fragility and the tenacity of ordinary life., A bittersweet comedy of "group therapy manners" about cracking up and putting the pieces back together from the writer John Ashbery called "America's greatest poet.", James Schuyler's utterly original What's for Dinner? features a cast of characters who appear to have escaped from a Norman Rockwell painting to run amok. In tones that are variously droll, deadpan, and lyrical, Schuyler tells a story that revolves around three small-town American households. The Delehanteys are an old-fashioned Catholic family whose twin teenage boys are getting completely out of hand, no matter that their father is hardly one to spare the rod. Childless Norris and Lottie Taylor have been happily married for years, even as Lottie has been slowly drinking herself to death. Mag, a recent widow, is on the prowl for love. Retreating to an institution to dry out, Lottie finds herself caught up in a curious comedy of group therapy manners. At the same time, however, she begins an ascent from the depths of despairilluminated with the odd grace and humor that readers of Schuyler's masterful poetry know so wellto a new understanding, that will turn her into an improbable redeemer within an unlikely world. What's for Dinner? is among the most delightful and unusual works of American literature. Charming and dark, off-kilter but pedestrian, mercurial yet matter-of-fact, Schuyler's novel is an alluring invention that captures both the fragility and the tenacity of ordinary life., James Schuyler's utterly original What's for Dinner? features a cast of characters who appear to have escaped from a Norman Rockwell painting to run amok. In tones that are variously droll, deadpan, and lyrical, Schuyler tells a story that revolves around three small-town American households. The Delehanteys are an old-fashioned Catholic family whose twin teenage boys are getting completely out of hand, no matter that their father is hardly one to spare the rod. Childless Norris and Lottie Taylor have been happily married for years, even as Lottie has been slowly drinking herself to death. Mag, a recent widow, is on the prowl for love. Retreating to an institution to dry out, Lottie finds herself caught up in a curious comedy of group therapy manners. At the same time, however, she begins an ascent from the depths of despair--illuminated with the odd grace and humor that readers of Schuyler's masterful poetry know so well--to a new understanding, that will turn her into an improbable redeemer within an unlikely world. What's for Dinner? is among the most delightful and unusual works of American literature. Charming and dark, off-kilter but pedestrian, mercurial yet matter-of-fact, Schuyler's novel is an alluring invention that captures both the fragility and the tenacity of ordinary life.

LC Classification NumberPS3569.C56W47 2005