The giraffe's neck : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 140884379X
- ISBN: 9781408843796
- ISBN: 1620403382
- ISBN: 9781620403389
- ISBN: 9781620403389 : HRD
- ISBN: 1620403382 : HRD
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Physical Description:
211 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published in Germany in 2011 under the title Der Hals der Giraffe by Suhrkamp Verlag. |
Summary, etc.: | "Adaptation is everything. Inge Lohmark is well aware of that; after all, she's been teaching biology for more than thirty years. But nothing will change the fact that her school is going to be closed in four years: In this dwindling town in the eastern German countryside, there are fewer and fewer children. Inge's husband, who was a cattle inseminator before the reunification, is now breeding ostriches. Their daughter, Claudia, emigrated to the United States years ago and has no intention of having children. Everyone is resisting the course of nature that Inge teaches every day in class.When Inge finds herself experiencing intense feelings for a ninth-grade girl, her biologically determined worldview is shaken. And in increasingly outlandish ways, she tries to save what can no longer be saved"-- |
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Subject: | FICTION / General Germany Fiction |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Howard Whittemore Library - Naugatuck | FIC SCHALANSKY, JUDITH (Text) | 34027130706156 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |