Fool's Paradise

Marriage kills love. That's why people get married. The unmarried and unemployed narrator of A Fool's Paradise is seeing a married man and must, because of her social security, apply and interview for jobs she does not want. Her life is founded on unsustainable contradictions. As her lover considers recommitting to his wife and as her poverty becomes increasingly dire, she confronts the temptations and contradictions of conventional success, but she is also overcome by jealousy and dissatisfaction. She travels to Russia and spies on her lover's wife. She takes a job that she hates. This precise and intensely personal novel describes the narrator's growing sense that freedom becomes, itself, a kind of routine, and shows her burgeoning desire to break out of it.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 07/01/2006
ISBN: 9781564784223
Pages: 133
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 7.84h x 5.58w x 0.42d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/22/2006 pg. 32
Booklist 07/01/2006 pg. 30
Entertainment Weekly 08/04/2006 pg. 72