Ebook {Epub PDF} Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

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Jenny Offill's novel, Dept. Of Speculation is a perfect, condensed (as in nothing spare or superfluous - every word is knife point) chronicle of lives lived with full-on, unapologetic drama and baggage. Not the lives our pre-adult selves imagined having, but the emotional grist that most of us actually end up with. Dept. of Speculation (Vintage Contemporaries) - Kindle edition by Offill, Jenny. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Dept. of Speculation (Vintage Contemporaries). Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill has an overall rating of Positive based on 19 book reviews.

Jenny Offill’s novel, Dept. Of Speculation is a perfect, condensed (as in nothing spare or superfluous – every word is knife point) chronicle of lives lived with full-on, unapologetic drama and baggage. Not the lives our pre-adult selves imagined having, but the emotional grist that most of us actually end up with. Book Summary. Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. Dept. of Speculation Jenny Offill, Knopf Doubleday pp. ISBN Summary Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.