Description |
330 pages ; 22 cm |
Summary |
""Joe Keen and Ana Urbanek have been a couple for a long time, with all the requisite lulls and temptations, yet they remain unmarried and without children or a mortgage, as their Midwestern values (and parents) seem to require. Now on the cusp of forty, they are both working at jobs that they're not even sure they believe in anymore, but with significantly varying returns. Set against the backdrop of bottomed-out 2009 Detroit, a once-great American city now in transition, part decaying and part striving to be reborn, The Narcissism of Small Differences is the story of an aging creative class, doomed to ask the questions: Is it possible to outgrow irony? Does not having children make you one? Is there even such a thing as selling out anymore? "-- Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
Unmarried couples -- Fiction.
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Middle-aged persons -- Conduct of life -- Fiction.
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Two thousands (Decade) -- Fiction.
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Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction.
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ISBN |
9781617758188 |
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1617758183 |
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