Mislaid, by Nell Zink
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"Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know." (Jonathan Franzen)
Virginia, 1966. The motionless deeps of the lake outside Stillwater College are being ruffled. Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, is determinedly fondling Peggy, an ingénue freshman with literary pretensions, in his canoe. So begins a long affair, but the two are mismatched from the start.
The story that follows rocks the boat in every sense. Nell Zink's hugely entertaining, totally unique Mislaid explodes the nuclear family and topples every foundation of identity - black and white, gay and straight, "normal" and very very strange....
Mislaid, by Nell Zink- Amazon Sales Rank: #110191 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-06-18
- Released on: 2015-06-18
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 476 minutes
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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful. Promising start By AM I bought this book because of The New Yorker's glowing profile of Ms. Zink and the first chapter of the book published as a short story in the same. It's good to have friends in high places! The first half of this book raced by and was witty and thoughtful - I laughed out loud during the commute to work. The last half, though, descended into slapstick and circled its way to a nice pat ending. A promising start with a disappointing finish but worth the read for the first half's vivid, funny prose.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Not for me. By Carrie G. I won this book through Goodreads First Reads.I really wanted to like this book but in the end I found myself not really caring what would happen. Peggy is really the most unlikable lead character I’ve come across in a while. The book starts off basically with Peggy declaring she’s a lesbian then starting college only to sleep with a male teacher and end up pregnant. Lee marries her to do the honorable thing which to me is the least honorable thing to do when he does nothing but cheat on her for the 10 years they do spend together.Peggy finally has enough and leaves the joke of a marriage behind but she also leaves behind her son and only takes her young daughter with her. Instead of getting a divorce and making something of herself she ends up getting false identities for herself and her daughter and hiding. Then of course the only logical step from there instead of doing something as obvious as getting a job or going back to school is to end up in business with a drug dealer.There are a few funny moments throughout the book but I spent too much time just shaking my head at the choices and actions of all the characters to rate this any higher than maybe a 2.5.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Witty writing By Alan A. Elsner There has been a lot of buzz about this author and her peculiar take on life. I found this novel eminently readable and enjoyable replete with witty writing and amusing observations - but the characters seemed a little forced to me as if they were invented like mannequins to serve the author's literary purposes rather than real life men, women and children.The main character, Meg, is a lesbian who gets herself into a marriage with a fairly unstable homosexual, Lee, who edits a poetry magazine at an obscure Virginia college. They manage to have two children together, a boy and a girl, before the marriage collapses in a welter of bitterness. Meg flees, taking the little girl but leaving the eight-year-old boy behind with his father.Meg reinvents her daughter as black (even though she is blond) and gets her a new identity. They live under the radar in great poverty, sustained only by Meg's activities as the sidekick of a local drug dealer. Meanwhile Lee continues to search for his missing daughter. We know that at some point a reunification will happen and when it does, the author engineers and fairly successful comic denouement.The book is often insightful and full of sly little observations. In fact, the chief pleasure of this book is the writing. Whether one is invested in these people and their lives is another matter.
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