Why Did I Ever? by Mary Robison
Tense, moving, and hilarious . . . A] dark jewel of a novel. --Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine Three husbands have left her. I.R.S. agents are whamming on her door. And her beloved cat has gone missing. She's back and forth between Melanie, her secluded Southern town, and L.A., where she has a weakening grasp on her job as a script doctor. Having been sacked by most of the studios and convinced that her dealings with Hollywood have fractured her personality, Money Breton talks to herself nonstop. She glues and hammers and paints every item in her place. She forges loving inscriptions in all her books. Through it all, there is her darling puzzling daughter who lives close by but seems ever beyond reach, and her son, the damaged victim of a violent crime under police protection in New York. While both her children seem to be losing all their battles, Money tries for ways and reasons to keep battling. Why Did I Ever is a book of piercing intellect and belligerent humor. Since its first publication in 2002 it has had a profound impact, not only on Robison's devoted following, but on the shape of the contemporary novel itself.
Robison, Mary: - MARY ROBISON was born in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Johns Hopkins, where she studied with John Barth. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, an O. Henry Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. She is the author of four novels, Oh! (1981), Subtraction (1991), Why Did I Ever (2001), and One D.O.A., one on the way (2009), and of three other story collections, Days (1979), An Amateur's Guide to the Night (1983), and Believe Them (1988). Robison has written for Hollywood and has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1977. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781582430607 |
| ISBN 10 | 1582430608 |
| Title | Why Did I Ever? |
| Author | Mary Robison |
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| Publisher | Counterpoint Press |
| Year published | 2001-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Prizes | Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Fiction) 2001 |
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