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Jenny Offill

Auteur de Dept. of Speculation

18+ oeuvres 4,843 utilisateurs 347 critiques 3 Favoris

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Œuvres de Jenny Offill

Dept. of Speculation (2014) 2,031 exemplaires
Weather: A novel (2020) 1,174 exemplaires
Sparky! (2014) 417 exemplaires
11 Experiments That Failed (2011) 341 exemplaires
Last Things (2000) 217 exemplaires
The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away (2005) — Directeur de publication; Foreword & contributor — 203 exemplaires
While You Were Napping (2014) 42 exemplaires
Syvien pohdintojen jaosto (2018) 2 exemplaires
Tempo variabile (2020) 2 exemplaires
Avdeling for grublerier (2016) 1 exemplaire
Lucky! (2016) 1 exemplaire
Hava Durumu 1 exemplaire

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Electric Literature No. 3 (2010) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires

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Partage des connaissances

Date de naissance
1968
Sexe
female
Nationalité
USA
Lieu de naissance
Massachusetts, USA
Lieux de résidence
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Études
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Professions
author
Organisations
Brooklyn College
Queens University of Charlotte
Courte biographie
Jennie Offill teaches in the M.F.A. writing program at Brooklyn College.  [adapted from The Friend Who Got Away (2005)]

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The first few chapters wowed me. Offill's writing was crisp and she had a talent for observing and writing about people. For example, who could forget the wife's experience of hiding something she dislikes at a restaurant and then find out that the restaurant's staff didn't care? However, I feel that the tone of the book somehow changed after the first few chapters, which affected my enjoyment of the book.
½
 
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siok | 143 autres critiques | Mar 17, 2024 |
An amusing book about adultery; educational too! I never knew that research shows men tend to have affairs after their oldest child turns six, our evolutionarily reptilian brains thinking that genetic investment is able to carry on without us now, so time to go create a different one. Or that Buddhists believe there are 121 states of consciousness, only 3 of which involve misery or suffering, though naturally we spend most of our time just in those three. I have no confirmation that these are true, mind, but they sound legit.

The book's heroine never intended to get married, and the book never intends to give the reader much of any idea about the husband. He exists, he is outlined, and then he cheats, and we're given the wife's reaction along with a steady stream of amusing factoids. Interestingly, the perspective shifts from first to third person once this trouble occurs, as if the character steps back from this clichéd situation to wryly observe the difficulty she's gotten herself into. "If only you'd stuck to your plan to be an Art Monster," her third person omniscient voice might say to her first person character, "this totally could have been avoided." Happily, however, the first person wrenches back control of the narrative at the last. It's always better to have loved.

There is a comparison in the style of this book to Renata Adler's Speedboat in that it is told in little episodic chunks. But Offill is funny; Adler is arch. Offill has a plot; Adler does not. Between the two I'll definitely take Offill.
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lelandleslie | 143 autres critiques | Feb 24, 2024 |
Good writing, but no narrative coherence; i just didn’t get the point. Experimental style isn’t for me
½
 
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JosephKing6602 | 143 autres critiques | Dec 6, 2023 |
So good. I might have written it if I ever allowed anyone but Victoria to see my true self. Funny and full, pregnant really, of existential angst of a librarian, New Yorker, mother, trying to understand or at least simply navigate the quickly spiraling world.
 
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BookyMaven | 68 autres critiques | Dec 6, 2023 |

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Statistiques

Œuvres
18
Aussi par
2
Membres
4,843
Popularité
#5,185
Évaluation
½ 3.7
Critiques
347
ISBN
110
Langues
11
Favoris
3

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