Glass
By: Sam Savage
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Coffee House Press; Distributed by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781566892735
Subjects: Authorship; Widows; Marriage; Self-realization in women; Fiction
Description: "Tasked with writing the preface to a reissue of her late husband?s long-out-of-print novel, Edna is unexpectedly asked to take care of a vacationing neighbor?s pet rat, an aquarium of fish, and an apartment full of potted plants. Sitting at her typewriter day after day, her mind drifts from one thing to another in a Proustian marathon of introspection. What eventually unfolds, as if by accident, is the story of a marriage and a portrait of a mind pushed to its limits. The reader is never quite certain if Edna?s preface is an homage to her late husband or an act of belated revenge. Is she the cultured and hypersensitive victim of a crass and brutally ambitious husband? Or was Clarence the long-suffering caretaker of a neurotic and delusional wife?"--Publisher's website.