We are all completely beside ourselves
In this novel we meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke. As a child, she never stopped talking; as a young woman, she has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover. Something happened, something so awful she has buried it in the recesses of her mind. It changed Rosemary and it destroyed her family. Now her older brother is a fugitive, wanted by the FBI for domestic terrorism. And her once lively mother is a shell of her former self; he…
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- Full title :We are all completely beside ourselves / Karen Joy Fowler.
Summary
In this novel we meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke. As a child, she never stopped talking; as a young woman, she has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover. Something happened, something so awful she has buried it in the recesses of her mind. It changed Rosemary and it destroyed her family. Now her older brother is a fugitive, wanted by the FBI for domestic terrorism. And her once lively mother is a shell of her former self; her clever and imperious father now a distant, brooding man. And Fern her sister, an endearing chimpanzee, her accomplice in all their childhood mischief, has come to a far more terrible fate than their family could ever have imagined. -- From book jacket.
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- Publication Date:2013
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013
Notes
"A Marian Wood book."
The Physical Object
- Description:310 pages ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780399162091, 0399162097, 9781781252956, 1781252955, 9780142180822, 0142180823, 9781846689956, 1846689953, 9781846689666, 184668966X, 9781846689659, 1846689651
- oclc:ocn822532814
- LC Classification:PS3556.O844
- Dewey Decimal:813/.54
Table of Contents
8 books (310 pages ; 22 cm) -- Contents list -- Author biography & list of additional resources -- Discussion questions -- Sign-up sheet -- Book kit policy & Suggestions for use of kit.
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