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The Guest Lecture: A Novel

The Guest Lecture: A Novel

Martin Riker
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With "a voice as clear, sincere, & wry as any I've read in current American fiction" (Joshua Cohen), Martin Riker's poignant & startlingly original novel asks how to foster a brave mind in anxious times, following a newly jobless academic rehearsing a speech on John Maynard Keynes for a surprising audience

In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to her sleeping husband & daughter. Anxious that she is grossly underprepared for a talk she is presenting tomorrow on optimism & John Maynard Keynes, she has resolved to practice by using an ancient rhetorical method of assigning parts of her speech to different rooms in her house & has brought along a comforting albeit imaginary companion to keep her on track—Keynes himself.

Yet as she wanders with increasing alarm through the rooms of her own consciousness, Abby finds herself straying from her prepared remarks on economic history, utopia, & Keynes’s pragmatic optimism. A lapsed optimist herself, she has been struggling under the burden of supporting a family in an increasingly hostile America after being denied tenure at the university where she teaches. Confronting her own future at a time of global darkness, Abby undertakes a quest through her memories to ideas hidden in the corners of her mind—a piecemeal intellectual history from Cicero to Lewis Carroll to Queen Latifah—as she asks what a better world would look like if we told our stories with more honest & more hopeful imaginations.

With warm intellect, playful curiosity, & an infectious voice, Martin Riker acutely animates the novel of ideas with a beating heart & turns one woman’s midnight crisis into the performance of a lifetime.

年:
2023
出版社:
Black Cat (Grove Atlantic)
语言:
english
页:
256
ISBN 13:
9780802160423
ISBN:
802160417
文件:
EPUB, 1.29 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2023
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