Synopses & Reviews
Linguist Jeremy Cook knows how language works, but he doesn't know how marriage works. In fact, he is strangely hostile to the institution. So Cook is naturally uneasy about his job with the Pillow Agency, a St. Louis firm specializing in "the linguistically troubled marriage." His assignment is to move in with Dan and Beth Wilson, a prosperous suburban couple with an impoverished relationship, to analyze their verbal problems and help them-if he can. As Cook catalogs the Wilsons' missed signs and missed signals, he becomes increasingly, most unscientifically, involved.
Review
"A comic chronicle of marital misunderstandings. . . eccentric, hilarious, wildly inventive and eerily accurate. . . Read this terrific book." -
The Los Angeles Times "With humor and insight, Mr. Carkeets fourth novel addresses the commonest of social diseases-a failing marriage-with the least likely of therapies: a live-in linguist."-The New York Times Book Review
"A feat of literary magic. . . a trove of insights about the way we live and love and bump our heads trying, sweetened by some of the funniest writing since Mark Twain." -Jonathan Kellerman
Synopsis
In the tradition of Stephen McCauley's The Onject of My Affection, here is the critically acclaimed fourth novel from the author of Double Negative. The Los Angeles Times praised The Full Catastrophe as eccentric, hilarious, wildly inventive and eerily accurate . . . (a) terrific book. Advertising in New York Times Book Review.
Synopsis
Jeremy Cook, introduced in "Double Negative," has just taken a new job with an unusual counseling firm. His assignment is to live with a couple and analyze their interactions. The hidden innuendoes that surface bring about hilarious complications.
Synopsis
Linguist Jeremy Cook knows how language works, but he doesn't know how marriage works.