num_pages: 288
description: The ferociously talented author of Original Bliss and On Bullfighting offers this haunting tale of two forlorn people who find in each other a hope and love as genuine and original as this marvelous book in which they come to life. M. Jennifer M. Wilson has decided to become a voice. A professional enunciator, an announcer, a voice-over artist, she has retreated into a world of words. Behind the sound-proof double doors of the recording studio she must surely be safe from the painful inconveniences of hate and love. Until reality breaks in and Jennifer uncovers the harsh vocabulary of addiction and the addictive extremes of sex. -An alchemical romance, a Swiftian satire for our times, an impossible spiritual journey and a devastating plummet into insanity and perversion, So I Am Glad is oblique, incisive, hilarious and horrific.
language: English
title: So I Am Glad
titlecomplete: So I Am Glad
characters: M. Jennifer Wilson, Cyrano de Bergerac
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Scotland, Literary Fiction, Novels, Female Authors, Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature
ratings_count: 391
places: Glasgow, Scotland, Scotland
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: RSL Encore Award
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group