Torpor
By: Chris Kraus
Series: Semiotext(e) native agents series
Publisher: Semiotext(e); Distributed by the MIT Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Description: A novel set in 1991, post-MTV, pre-AOL: Sylvie, longing for a life more like the TV show thirtysomething, sets off with her husband, Columbia University professor Jerome, to Romania to adopt a child.