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Title
The most / Jessica Anthony.
Edition
First Little, Brown paperback edition.
ISBN
0316576379 (paperback)
9780316576376 (paperback)
9780316576376 (paperback)
Published
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024.
Copyright
©2024
Language
English
Description
135 pages ; 21 cm
Call Number
PS3601.N55588 M67 2024
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1408650489
Summary
"It is an unseasonably warm Sunday in November 1957. Katheen, a college tennis champion turned Delaware housewife, decides not to join her flagrantly handsome life insurance salesman husband, Virgil, or their two young boys, at church. Instead, she takes a dip in the kidney-shaped swimming pool of their apartment complex. And then she won't come out. A consuming, single-sitting read set over the course of eight hours, The Most breaches the shimmering surface of a seemingly idyllic mid-century marriage, immersing us in the unspoken truth beneath. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth carrying Laika, the doomed Soviet dog, Kathleen and Virgil hurtle towards each other until they arrive at a reckoning that will either shatter their marriage, or transform it, at last, into something real."-- Provided by publisher.
Awards
National Book Award longlist for 2024
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