{"product_id":"a-disorder-peculiar-to-the-country-a-novel-isbn-9780060501419","title":"A Disorder Peculiar to the Country: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA National Book Award Finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The best novel yet about 9\/11.... A brilliant new comedy of manners, \u003cem\u003eA Disorder Peculiar to the Country\u003c\/em\u003e is about the way a conflict takes on a logic and momentum of its own.\" —Salon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Savagely hilarious.” —\u003cem\u003eElle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoyce and Marshall each think the other is killed on September 11—and must swallow their disappointment when the other arrives home. As their bitter divorce is further complicated by anthrax scares, suicide bombs, and foreign wars, they suffer, in ways unexpectedly personal and increasingly ludicrous, the many strange ravages of our time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this astonishing black comedy, Kalfus suggests how our nation’s public calamities have encroached upon our most private illusions.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eJoyce and Marshall each think the other is killed on September 11—and must swallow their disappointment when the other arrives home. As their bitter divorce is further complicated by anthrax scares, suicide bombs, and foreign wars, they suffer, in ways unexpectedly personal and increasingly ludicrous, the many strange ravages of our time. In this astonishing black comedy, Kalfus suggests how our nation’s public calamities have encroached upon our most private illusions. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Hilarious. . . . The novel miraculously manages to avoid patness or bombast. As in Jay McInerney’s recent The Good Life, Kalfus puts 9\/11 up against the steel-plated narcissism of New Yorkers—with very different, and very funny, results.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An interesting departure from Kalfus’s Slavic-inflected earlier fiction. Astringent, accomplished black comedy.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Savagely hilarious. . . . This is a scathing portrait of self-absorbed people misunderestimating the complexity and malignancy of motives the drive unfolding events.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is—despite Kalfus’s skewering of the very notion—a heroic book, brimming with an almost evangelical need to let a satirical truth replace the fact-based fictions of some glowing obituaries.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A stinging new fiction. . . . Kalfus recalibrates all the standard divorce tropes into something sharper than that provided by more-innocent, or at least more-isolationist, divorce fare.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A surprising new novel. . . . Unlike so many satirical novelists at work today, Kalfus doesn’t pull his punches. From the very first scene, this is a bracing book. . . . This is a novel about how people chafe against the huge, un-sentient brush of history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Brilliant. . . . It’s an engaging and provocative enterprise, a novel that challenges accepted pieties and dislodges expectations. . . . Kalfus’s daring, intelligent exploration of animosity in its various forms is a novelistic evocation of global despair.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Truly powerful.... Rollicking.... A genuine commentary upon the lot of us.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eClaire Messud, Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kalfus is an impressively penetrating and precise novelist.... He kept me turning the pages by the forceful grace of his writing and insights.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The best novel yet about 9\/11. . . . Kalfus is an endlessly ingenious writer. . . . Features some of the best fiction writing yet about Sept. 11. . . . . A brilliant new comedy of manners, A Disorder Peculiar to the Country is about the way a conflict takes on a logic and momentum of its own.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaura Miller, Salon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Vivid. . . . Entertaining. . . . Like Don DeLillo in White Noise, Kalfus is using the misfortunes of one family as a pathway into the national malaise.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCraig Seligman, Bloomberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Powerful. . . . Kalfus skewers the pieties surrounding 9\/11.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Singularly imaginative. . . . An exceptionally smart, provocative novel. . . . A Disorder Peculiar to the Country is a dark comedy with serious things to say about the difficult, unsettling times in which we live.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Yardley, The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kalfus’ new novel [is] like a fever dream of recent events. . . .Through the interbleeding of public and private story lines and his lampooning approach, Kalfus [is] freeing the way we think about Sept. 11 and the war on terror from a ready-made mold, the rigid cast of a hardening historical view. If hyperbole can be weaponized anywhere in literature, it is here.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Intrepid and dolefully hilarious. . . . Disorder dishes out plenty of outrageousness, but what makes it truly resonate is its scorching psychological portraits. A tried-and-true moralist, Kalfus transforms the humor of his tantrum-prone protags into something much deeper—a scathing indictment of their puerile selfishness.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kalfus avoids the easier targets and more obvious ironies of the era. His characters and situations are vivid and idiosyncratic enough to be wholly, and embarrassingly recognizable to anyone who experienced impulses unbecoming to citizens of ‘a nation challenged.’” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is—despite Kalfus’s skewering of the very notion—a heroic book, brimming with an almost evangelical need to let a satirical truth replace . . . fact-based fictions.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887565172965,"sku":"NP9780060501419","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060501419.jpg?v=1730226970","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-disorder-peculiar-to-the-country-a-novel-isbn-9780060501419","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}