
Act of God
A Novel
Jill Ciment(Author)
Vintage Books (Publisher)
Published on 22. March 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-8041-6970-7 (ISBN)
Description
It's the summer of 2015, Brooklyn, and the city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, have discovered something ominous in their hall closet: it's shaped like a mushroom, it's phosphorescent, and it's rapidly consuming their wall. But that's only the beginning … Part suspense, part screwball comedy, Jill Ciment's brilliant novel looks at what happens when our lives-so seemingly set and ordered-break down in the wake of calamity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8041-6970-7 (9780804169707)
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JILL CIMENT was born in Montreal, Canada. She is the author of Small Claims, a collection of short stories and novellas; the novels The Law of Falling Bodies, Teeth of the Dog, The Tattoo Artist, and Heroic Measures; and a memoir, Half a Life. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, among them a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Ciment is a professor at the University of Florida. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, and Brooklyn, New York.