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The Slippage PS Paperback by Greenman, Ben is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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What would happen if you invited Lorrie Moore, Mona Simpson, Tom Perrotta, and Steven Wright to a suburban barbecue? Something like this wry and wistful new novel of marriage, lust, and disconnection, from the author of What He's Poised to Do. William and Louisa Day are a suburban husband and wife with no children confronting the question of what their relationship means to them, and if and how it will survive. One day, after weeks of bizarre behavior-disappearing in the middle of parties, hoarding mail-Louisa approaches William with a simple appeal: "I want you to build us a house." Caught off-guard by the request, William is suddenly forced to reckon with his own hopes and desires, his growing discomfort at home and work, and, in the end, the fight-or-flight ultimatum his wife has posed for their future. Complicating these questions are the ghosts of other relationships in William's past, both ancient and recent-from the ex-girlfriend whose child is a kind of surrogate son, to his new neighbor, his partner in a recent indiscretion now uncomfortably returned to the foreground. Ben Greenman is a poet of romantic angst in contemporary American life, hailed for his whimsical yet unbe

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Greenman, Ben
Publisher
New York: Harper Perennial
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9780061990519
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
Rating
2.92 / 5 (182 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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