Bibliograph

The narcissism of small differences, Michael Zadoorian

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The narcissism of small differences, Michael Zadoorian

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The narcissism of small differences

Oclc number

1121082866

Responsibility statement

Michael Zadoorian

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. Ana is successful, Joe is floundering--both in limbo, caught somewhere between mainstream and alternative culture, sincerity and irony, achievement and arrested development. 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

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