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"Master of razor-edged literary humor Binnie Kirshenbaum returns with her first novel in a decade, a devastating, laugh-out-loud funny story of a writer's slide into depression and institutionalization. It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's protagonist--an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer--fully unravels. Her breakdown lands her in the psych ward of a prestigious NewYork hospital where she refuses all modes of recommended treatment. Instead, she passes the time chronicling the lives of her fellow "lunatics" and writing a novel about how she got to this place. Her story is a hilarious and harrowing deep dive into thedisordered mind of a woman who sees the world all too clearly. Propelled by stand-up comic timing and rife with pinpoint insights, Kirshenbaum examines what it means to be unloved and loved, to succeed and fail, to be at once impervious and raw. Rabbitsfor Food shows how art can lead us out of--or into--the depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief. A bravura literary performance from one of our most witty and indispensable writers"--

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008181217s2019 nyu 000 1 eng
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035 . ‡a(DLC)BK0023727219
037 . ‡bRandom House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 ‡nSAN 201-3975
040 . ‡aDLC ‡beng ‡erda ‡cDLC ‡dUtOrBLW
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1001 . ‡aKirshenbaum, Binnie, ‡eauthor. ‡0n 88166821 ‡0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88166821
24510. ‡aRabbits for food / ‡cBinnie Kirshenbaum.
263 . ‡a1905
264 1. ‡aNew York : ‡bSoho Press, ‡c[2019]
300 . ‡apages ; cm
336 . ‡atext ‡btxt ‡2rdacontent
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520 . ‡a"Master of razor-edged literary humor Binnie Kirshenbaum returns with her first novel in a decade, a devastating, laugh-out-loud funny story of a writer's slide into depression and institutionalization. It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's protagonist--an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer--fully unravels. Her breakdown lands her in the psych ward of a prestigious NewYork hospital where she refuses all modes of recommended treatment. Instead, she passes the time chronicling the lives of her fellow "lunatics" and writing a novel about how she got to this place. Her story is a hilarious and harrowing deep dive into thedisordered mind of a woman who sees the world all too clearly. Propelled by stand-up comic timing and rife with pinpoint insights, Kirshenbaum examines what it means to be unloved and loved, to succeed and fail, to be at once impervious and raw. Rabbitsfor Food shows how art can lead us out of--or into--the depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief. A bravura literary performance from one of our most witty and indispensable writers"-- ‡cProvided by publisher.
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