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Wrack and ruin : a novel
- Title
- Wrack and ruin : a novel / Don Lee.
- Author
- Lee, Don, 1959-
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2008], ©2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3562.E339 W73 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 333 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Lyndon Song is a renowned sculptor who fled New York City to become a Brussels sprouts farmer in the small California town of Rosarita Bay. Lyndon has a brother, Woody, an indicted financier turned movie producer, and Woody has a plan, involving a golf-course resort on Lyndon's land and an aging kung-fu diva from Hong Kong with a mean kick and a meaner drinking problem." "Over one madcap Labor Day weekend, this plan wreaks havoc on Lyndon's bucolic and carefully managed life. Woody's financial (and existential) crisis embroils everyone from a developer obsessed with college football to two field biologists studying western snowy plovers, and culminates in literature's first-ever windsurfing chase scene. Meanwhile, Lyndon's great love, Sheila Lemke, the impulsive mayor of Rosarita Bay, is having a crisis of her own, leading her to petty vandalism; other women smell mysteriously of chocolate ice cream; Buddhist missives arrive scrawled on paper airplanes; and a small plot of exceptionally lush marijuana is ready for harvest. In all, Lyndon's life in Rosarita Bay Is ready to come apart at the seams."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Satire.
- Humorous fiction.
- ISBN
- 9780393062328
- 0393062325
- LCCN
- 2007040464
- 40015352160
- OCLC
- ocn173748696
- 173748696
- SCSB-5403416
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries