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001			ocn993672973
003			OCoLC
005			20180722230140.0
008			170707t20182018nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2017028589
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020			_a9781524731991 _qhardcover ; _qacid-free paper
020			_a1524731994 _qhardcover ; _qacid-free paper
035			_a(OCoLC)993672973
042			_apcc
092			_aCasale, _bJana
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aCasale, Jana, _eauthor. _9355925
245	1	4	_aThe girl who never read Noam Chomsky / _cJana Casale.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2018.
264		4	_c©2018
300			_a353 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aAn ambitious debut, at once timely and timeless, that captures the complexity and joys of modern womanhood. This novel is gem like--in its precision, its many facets, and its containing multitudes. Following in the footsteps of Virginia Woolf, Rona Jaffe, Maggie Shipstead, and Sheila Heti, Jana Casale writes with bold assurance about the female experience. We first meet Leda in a coffee shop on an average afternoon, notable only for the fact that it's the single occasion in her life when she will eat two scones in one day. And for the cute boy reading American Power and the New Mandarins . Leda hopes that, by engaging him, their banter will lead to romance. Their fleeting, awkward exchange stalls before flirtation blooms. But Leda's left with one imperative thought: she decides she wants to read Noam Chomsky. So she promptly buys a book and never--ever--reads it. As the days, years, and decades of the rest of her life unfold, we see all of the things Leda does instead, from eating leftover spaghetti in her college apartment, to fumbling through the first days home with her newborn daughter, to attempting (and nearly failing) to garden in her old age. In a collage of these small moments, we see the work--both visible and invisible--of a woman trying to carve out a life of meaning. Over the course of her experiences Leda comes to the universal revelation that the best-laid-plans are not always the path to utter fulfillment and contentment, and in reality there might be no such thing. Lively and disarmingly honest, The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky is a remarkable literary feat--bracingly funny, sometimes heartbreaking, and truly feminist in its insistence that the story it tells is an essential one.
650		0	_aSelf-actualization (Psychology) in women _vFiction. _9138489
650		0	_aSelf-realization in women _vFiction. _9115782
655		7	_aBildungsromans. _2lcgft _921488
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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