Transit
In the wake of family collapse, a writer moves to London with her two young sons. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions--personal, moral, artistic, practical--as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life.
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- ISBN: 9781410499479
- Physical Description 287 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
- Edition Large print edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2017.
- Copyright ©2016
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New York Times Review
Transit
New York Times
July 29, 2018
Copyright (c) The New York Times Company
THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH, by Tom Wolfe. (Back Bay/ Little, Brown, $15.99.) With his signature wit, Wolfe takes aim at evolution - or, as he sees it, a messy guess - baggy, boggy, soggy and leaking all over the place." Language, in his view, is not a logical byproduct of evolution but a tool that humans invented. The book also serves as a searing dismissal of academia, and of the linguistics professor Noam Chomsky.