03608cam a2200361 4500 522023833 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781508245681 1508245681 f47b2f8d-4fed-4726-828c-4e5e942febec OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3301903 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Halliday, Lisa. Asymmetry [Libby] : A Novel. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2018. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 221MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 221MB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<b>A <i>TIME</i> and <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR * <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book and <i>Times</i> Critic's Top Book of 2018</b><br /> <br /> <b>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY * <i>Elle</i> * <i>Bustle</i> * <i>Kirkus Reviews</i> * <i>Lit Hub</i>* NPR * <i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i> * <i>Shelf Awareness</i></b><br /> <br /> <b>The bestselling and critically acclaimed debut novel by Lisa Halliday, hailed as</b> <b>"extraordinary" by <i>The</i> <i>New York Times</i>, "a brilliant and complex examination of power dynamics in love and war" by <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, and "a literary phenomenon" by <i>The New Yorker.</i></b><br /> Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, <i>Asymmetry</i> explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, "Folly," tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War, "Folly" also suggests an aspiring novelist's coming-of-age. By contrast, "Madness" is narrated by Amar, an Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers and spends the last weekend of 2008 in a holding room in Heathrow. These two seemingly disparate stories gain resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap, with yet new implications for their relationship revealed in an unexpected coda.<br /> <br /> A stunning debut from a rising literary star, <i>Asymmetry</i> is "a transgressive roman a clef, a novel of ideas, and a politically engaged work of metafiction" (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>), and a "masterpiece" in the original sense of the word" (<i>The Atlantic</i>). Lisa Halliday's novel will captivate any reader with while also posing arresting questions about the very nature of fiction itself. Media Type: Audiobook. 10 Best Books of 2018. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. Thaxton, Candace. Morey, Arthur. Hardingham, Fiona. Hakimi, Aden. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/3301903-Asymmetry.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f47b2f8d-4fed-4726-828c-4e5e942febec&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/3301903-Asymmetry.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f47b2f8d-4fed-4726-828c-4e5e942febec&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)