Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen

Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Salon.com Top Ten Book of the Year
A Plain Dealer (Cleveland) Best Book of the Year
A Slate Best Book of the Year

Rivka Galchen's Atmospheric Disturbances is a "witty, tender, and conceptually dazzling" (Booklist) novel about the mysterious nature of human relationships.

When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves exactly like her. A simulatcrum. But Leo is not fooled, and he knows better than to trust his senses in matters of the heart. Certain that the real Rema is alive and in hiding, he embarks on a quixotic journey to reclaim her. With the help of his psychiatric patient Harvey--who believes himself to be a secret agent able to control the weather--his investigation leads him from the streets of New York City to the southernmost reaches of Patagonia, in search of the woman he loves.

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Galchen, Rivka: - Rivka Galchen received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues. Galchen completed her MFA at Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham Fellow. Her essay on the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics was published in The Believer, and she is the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Galchen lives in New York City. She is the author of the novel Atmospheric Disturbances.

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ISBN 13	9780312428433
ISBN 10	031242843X
Title	Atmospheric Disturbances
Author	Rivka Galchen
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St Martin's Press
Year published	2009-04-27
Number of pages	256
Prizes	Commended for Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2008, Commended for Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize 2008
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.