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| Author | Kate Christensen |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Published | 2011 (Doubleday) |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 311 |
| ISBN | 9780385530910 |
| OCLC | 666230046 |
The Astral is a 2011 novel by Kate Christensen. It is about a poet, Harry Quirk, who having been thrown out of the family apartment at the Astral by his wife Luz, attempts to get his life back together.
Daniel Handler, reviewing The Astral in The New York Times , called it "an object lesson on the current realist novel, with its pitfalls and pleasures both as clear as the book’s unsentimental vision." and concluded "the realist novel believes that we are, all of us ordinary people in our ordinary lives, enchanted already. .. But then when I open a novel, I expect something other than the ordinary circumstances that already surround me, be it in language or story. I think most readers do. To expect otherwise, as Christensen does in “The Astral,” seems a little, well, unrealistic." [1] The Washington Post found "that Christensen has somehow — again — created a captivatingly believable male narrator". [2]
The Astral has also been reviewed by Booklist , [3] Library Journal , [4] BookPage Reviews, [5] Kirkus Reviews , [6] and Publishers Weekly . [7]
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The Epicure's Lament is a 2004 novel by Kate Christensen. It is about Hugo, a man living by himself at the family home and his interaction with various characters.
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A satisfying redoing of a man undone.
This could be a real charmer; watch.
With acute perception and witty humor, this bittersweet novel moves along at a tremendous pace, entertaining until its climactic final scene.
A masterpiece of comedy and angst. Think Gulley Jimson of Joyce Cary’s The Horses Mouth transported from 1930s London to present-day Brooklyn.
Like the rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn of its setting, Christensen's unremittingly wonderful latest (after Trouble) is populated by an odd but captivating mix of characters.