By Blood - Paperback
by Ellen Ullman
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ellen UllmanTheme:Chronological Period/21st Century, Ethnic Orientation/Jewish, Religious Orientation/Jewish, Topical/FamilyPublish date:12/24/2012Pages:384
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250023964ISBN-10:1250023963UPC:9781250023964Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Jewish, Family LifeSize:8.73 x 5.55 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.44Product ID:SCFW8VK62Q
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
San Francisco, the 1970s. A disgraced professor takes an office in an old downtown building to plot his return. But he is distracted by the sounds coming from the next room, the office of a psychiatrist. He overhears the therapy sessions of a young lesbian who is in search of her adoptive family. Enraptured by the sound of her voice and obsessed with her story, the professor takes up the patient's quest as his own and discovers the disturbing truth about her origins. As he sends each new revelation to the patient---disguised as correspondence from an adoption agency---she is energized by the information, but finds herself unmoored from everything she thought she knew about herself. With ferocious intelligence and enthralling, magnetic prose, Ellen Ullman's By Blood is a dark and brilliant novel about connection, identity, history, and the terrible desire to influence another life.Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250023964ISBN-10:1250023963UPC:9781250023964Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Jewish, Family LifeSize:8.73 x 5.55 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.44Product ID:SCFW8VK62Q
Ellen Ullman is the author of a novel, The Bug, a New York Times Notable Book and runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the cult classic memoir Close to the Machine, based on her years as a rare female computer programmer in the early years of the personal computer era. She lives in San Francisco.
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