Emily Fox Gordon

It Will Come to Me

A Novel

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Ben Blau is the reluctant chair of the philosophy department of the Lola Dees Institute, surrounded by a bestiary of academic innocents and opportunists. His wife, Ruth-a writer whose early success never quite blossomed into a career-nurtures sometimes noisy and sometimes private rebellions against the conventions of academic life. Their lives have settled, if not always comfortably, into a dull ceremonial round of convocations, committee meetings, and pot-luck dinners. To Ruth it seems that nothing will ever change.Except that this year a new couple has arrived on campus: an ethereal, celebrated young memoirist and her husband, an intellectu… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-385-52588-6
EAN: 9780385525886
Produktnummer: 7274590
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 288 S.

Über den Autor

Emily Fox Gordon is an award-winning essayist and the author of two memoirs, Mockingbird Years: A Life In and Out of Therapy and Are You Happy? A Childhood Remembered Her work has appeared in American Scholar, Time, Pushcart Prize Anthology XXIII and XXIX, the New York Times Book Review, Boulevard, and Salmagundi. She lives in Houston and teaches writing workshops at Rice University.