We are all completely beside ourselves
(Book)
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New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., [2013], ©2013.
Physical Desc:
310 pages ; 22 cm
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family that is ordinary in every way but one in this novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize.
Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. “I was raised with a chimpanzee,” she explains. “I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren’t thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern’s expulsion...she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister.” As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence.
In We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work to date—a tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions lead to heartbreaking consequences.
“A gripping, big-hearted book...through the tender voice of her protagonist, Fowler has a lot to say about family, memory, language, science, and indeed the question of what constitutes a human being.”—Khaled Hosseini
Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. “I was raised with a chimpanzee,” she explains. “I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren’t thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern’s expulsion...she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister.” As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence.
In We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work to date—a tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions lead to heartbreaking consequences.
“A gripping, big-hearted book...through the tender voice of her protagonist, Fowler has a lot to say about family, memory, language, science, and indeed the question of what constitutes a human being.”—Khaled Hosseini
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Book
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780142180822, 9780399162091, 0399162097
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"A Marian Wood book."
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APA Citation (style guide)
Fowler, K. J. (20132013). We are all completely beside ourselves. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Fowler, Karen Joy. 20132013. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Fowler, Karen Joy, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc, 20132013.
MLA Citation (style guide)Fowler, Karen Joy. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc, 20132013.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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