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Anagrams (Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for AnagramsBenna Carpenter is an art history professor who wears glass jewelry, sings in local nightclubs, chain-smokes, runs an aerobics class for the elderly, teaches poetry, and has an adorable and devoted six-year-old daughter. Yet Benna is disillusioned, cynical and bitter. With brilliant imagination and wit, this extraordinary novel explores Benna's world of misheard exit lines, love gained and lost tr
Full description- Publisher: Vintage Books USA
- Published: 01 March 2007
- Format: Paperback 225 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780307277282 ISBN 10: 0307277283
- Sales rank: 371,819
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Gerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall and Gerard listens for the sound of her toilet flushing. Gerard loves Benna. And then Benna loves Gerard. She listens to him play piano, she teaches poetry and sings at nightclubs. As their relationships ebbs and flows, through reality and imagination, Lorrie Moore paints a captivating, innovative portrait of men and women in love and not in love. The first novel from a master of contemporary American fiction, "Anagrams "is a revelatory tale of love gained and lost.
