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Title Statement | Bottle grove: a novel / Daniel Handler. |
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Author | Handler, Daniel |
Publication | New York: Bloomsbury Publishing,2019. |
Extent of Item | 227 pages |
ISBN | 1632864274 (pbk.) 9781632864277 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3345828 |
Summary | This is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a wedding, held in the small San Francisco forest of Bottle Grove--bestowed by a wealthy patron for the public good, back when people did such things. Here is a cross section of lives, a stretch of urban green where ritzy guests, lustful teenagers, drunken revelers, and forest creatures all wait for the sun to go down. The girl in the corner slugging vodka from a cough-syrup bottle is Padgett--she's keeping something secreted in the woods. The couple at the altar are the newly named Nickels, as the bride is emphatic about changing her name--there is plenty about her old life she is ready to forget. Set in San Francisco as the tech-boom is exploding, Bottle Grove is a sexy, skewering dark comedy about two unions--one forged of love and the other of greed--and about the forces that can drive couples together, into dependence, and then into sinister, even supernatural realms. Add one ominous shape-shifter to the mix, and you get a delightful and strange spectacle: a story of scheming and yearning and foibles and love and what we end up doing for it--and everyone has a secret. Looming over it all is the income disparity between San Francisco's tech community and . . . everyone else. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Couples--Fiction |
Spouses--Fiction | |
Avarice--Fiction | |
Secrecy--Fiction | |
Shapeshifting--Fiction | |
By Location | San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction |
By Genre | Satire |
Black humor (Literature) |