The wallcreeper
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Nell Zink
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dorothy, a Publishing Project
Published: 2014
Place of publication: St. Louis, MO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780989760713
Subjects: Bird watching; Husbands and wives; Fiction
Description: "Nell Zink's debut novel follows a downwardly mobile secretary from Philadelphia who marries an ambitious soon-to-be-expat pharmaceutical researcher in hopes that she will never work again. They end up in Germany, where it turns out that her new husband is tougher, sneakier, more sincere, more contradictory, and smarter than she is; she'd naturally thought it was impossible. Life becomes complicated with affairs, birding, and eco-terrorism. Bad things happen, yet they stagger through, clinging to each other from a safe distance. Eventually our heroine commences building a life of her own, in imitation of her husband, one soggy brick at a time."--Publisher's website