Desolation

Title: Desolation
Author: Yasmina Reza
I9781720167662: 1708462
ISBN: 0375410872
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 135
Section: Fiction | Literary
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: From the internationally acclaimed playwright and author of" Art" comes a first novel of extraordinary brilliance: the outpourings--at once eccentric, dark, and exceedingly funny--of an old man reflecting upon his life, marriages, friendships, love affairs, and the enragingly separate existence of his spoiled, and lost, only son.
He has had a full life, and now, in his later years, retired, his second wife getting on his nerves, love affairs a distant memory, he has a few things that he'd like to get off his chest.
As he talks--half to himself, half to the son he can't understand--we're introduced to Nancy, his too-happy wife; to their housekeeper, Mrs. Dacimiento, who still can't put the bag properly over the rim of the garbage can; to his chum Lionel; to his daughter and her wannabe-truly-Jewish husband; and to the heartbreaking Marisa Botton, his idiotic, irresistible mistress. Finally, we witness his chance re-encounter with the charming Genevieve Abramowitz, who in telling him a story of her own leads him to his final overtures.
Yasmina Reza has written a symphonic monologue--a passionate" kvetch," a truly original work.