<strong>Moving on is never easy</strong>
Ruth and Alex Cohen are saying goodbye to their beloved New York apartment - because how can they turn down a million dollars? Tomorrow they will open their doors to the eclectic, maddening house-hunters of this city. But Manhattan is in chaos; an unmarked petrol truck is blocking the city's main tunnel, spreading fears of terrorism and threatening to disrupt a sacred bidding war over the ageing couple's home.
Across town, their adored old dachshund Dorothy lies sick in a hospital cage. She doesn't understand why she has been abandoned - all she knows is that Death is coming for her, and she isn't ready.
Unravelling over a long weekend, <em>Heroic Measures</em> is a bittersweet, comic tale of what it means to grow old in a world you no longer recognise. It is also a gentle paean to New York, to fleeting beauty, and to holding on to what we love with all our might.
<strong>Jill Ciment</strong> was born in Montreal, Canada. She is the author of <em>Small Claims</em>, a collection of short stories and novellas; the novels <em>The Law of Falling Bodies</em>, <em>Teeth of the Dog</em>, <em>The Tattoo Artist</em>, and <em>Heroic Measures</em>; and a memoir, <em>Half a Life</em>. 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, NewYork. Pushkin will publish her latest novel <em>Act of God</em>in 2016.
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Smart and funny and completely surprising. I've already bought a copy for everyone I know... I loved every page -- Ann Patchett A brave, generous, nearly perfect novel * Los Angeles Times * Read [it] for its painterly depictions of a rattled city, its deliciously biting satire of media and real estate madness, its tender knowledge of the creaturely ties that bind * O, The Oprah Magazine * Every once in a while, someone writes a book that, on the surface, is simple and quiet, yet underneath is stirringly beautiful and full of life and love... Heroic Measures is this kind of book * Globe and Mail * A wonderfully shrewd and delicate book * Boston Globe * It all sounds so ordinary - dogs get sick; people want to move - yet in Ms. Ciment's delicate hands, these characters become heroic in their small ways * Wall Street Journal (a summer reading pick) * Gripping... Ciment plays the veterinary, real estate and domestic details like elements of a thriller plot, while the couple's love of their dog provides heart-rending texture -- starred review * Publisher's Weekly * Ciment is a writer of bracing intensity, but she also possesses a pirouetting wit... [her] charming comedy of concerns has remarkable resonance * Booklist * [Heroic Measures] brilliantly conveys the combination of trivial personal concerns and fluttering panic a terrorist threat brings to a major city * Big Issue * Beautifully written, tender and funny * Daily Mail * A lovely read about long-term love * Good Housekeeping * A wry look at old age and a brilliant portrait of a rapidly changing city. Warm, humorous and witty * The Lady *
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Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
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978-1-78227-194-9 (9781782271949)
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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. Pushkin will publish her latest novel Act of God in 2016.
