Asymmetry: A Novel

Asymmetry: A Novel

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

â€œAsymmetry is extraordinary...Halliday has written, somehow all at once, a transgressive roman a clef, a novel of ideas and a politically engaged work of metafiction.â€ â€”Alice Gregory, The New York Times Book Review

â€œA brilliant and complex examination of power dynamics in love and war.â€ â€”Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal

â€œA scorchingly intelligent first novel...Asymmetry will make you a better reader, a more active noticer. It hones your senses.â€ â€”Parul Seghal, The New York Times

A singularly inventive and unforgettable debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of life and art, from 2017 Whiting Award winner Lisa Halliday.

Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, â€œFolly,â€ tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War, â€œFollyâ€ also suggests an aspiring novelistâ€™s coming-of-age. By contrast, â€œMadnessâ€ is narrated by Amar, an Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers and spends the last weekend of 2008 in a holding room in Heathrow. These two seemingly disparate stories gain resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap, with yet new implications for their relationship revealed in an unexpected coda.

A stunning debut from a rising literary star, Asymmetry is an urgent, important, and truly original work that will captivate any reader while also posing arresting questions about the very nature of fiction itself.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781501166761
ReleaseDate 2018-02-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501166761

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781501166761
ReleaseDate	2018-02-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501166761

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