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Zoo time : a novel

In awe of his strikingly beautiful, highly strung wife and her equally volatile mother, novelist Guy Ableman finds his work persistently interrupted by their drama and dreams of squeezing out one more great book in spite of growing fears that reading is a cultural activity of the past.

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  • "Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence that destroys Guy's peace of mind, suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough to write any of them. Not that anyone reads Guy, anyway. Not that anyone is reading anything. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, in the meantime, is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesn't expect her to finish it, or even start it, but he dreads the consequences if she does. In flight from personal disappointment and universal despair, Guy wonders if it's time to take his love for Poppy to another level."
  • "In awe of his strikingly beautiful, highly strung wife and her equally volatile mother, novelist Guy Ableman finds his work persistently interrupted by their drama and dreams of squeezing out one more great book in spite of growing fears that reading is a cultural activity of the past."@en
  • "In awe of his strikingly beautiful, highly strung wife and her equally volatile mother, novelist Guy Ableman finds his work persistently interrupted by their drama and dreams of squeezing out one more great book in spite of growing fears that reading is a cultural activity of the past."
  • "Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence that destroys Guy's peace of mind, suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough to write any of them. Not that anyone reads Guy, anyway. Not that anyone is reading anything. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, in the meantime, is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesn't expect her to finish it, or even start it, but he dreads the consequences if she does. In flight from personal disappointment and universal despair, Guy wonders if it's time to take his love for Poppy to another level. Fiction might be dead, but desire isn't. And out of that desire he imagines squeezing one more great book. By turns angry, elegiac and rude, Zoo Time is a novel about love -- love of women, love of literature, love of laughter."
  • "Een schrijver met een writer's block gebruikt zijn eigen leven ter inspiratie voor een nieuwe roman."

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  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Black humor (Literature)"@en
  • "Black humor (Literature)"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Romance fiction"
  • "General fiction"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Love stories"

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  • "Zoo time [text (large print)]"
  • "La grande ménagerie"
  • "Prendete mia suocera"@it
  • "Vremi︠a︡ zverint︠s︡a"
  • "Prendete mia suocera"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Zoo time : a novel"@en
  • "Zoo time : a novel"
  • "Im Zoo : Roman"
  • "Zeman ḥayot"
  • "Время зверинца"
  • "Im Zoo Roman"
  • "Zoo time"
  • "Zoo time"@en
  • "זמן חיות"
  • "Het uur van de dieren"

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