A novel by Anna Moschovakis
August 14, 2018 5.5 x 8.25 224 pages 978-1-56689-508-8
Close friends / distant lovers / lost paragraphs /a theft, a trip, a commune, a question: How to live in this world?
A missing laptop, acritic, a sojourn in communal livingEleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Loveis a bracingly intelligent examination of grief, autonomy, aging, desire, information overload, and the condition of being a thinking and feeling inhabitant of an often unthinkable, numbing world. Anna Moschovakiss debut novel bristles with honesty, humor, and the hungers that propel us to revise and again revise our lives.
About the Author
Anna Moschovakiss books include They and We Will Get into Trouble for This, You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake (winner of the James Laughlin Award), and English translations of Albert Cosserys The Jokers, Annie Ernauxs The Possession, and Bresson on Bresson. She is a longtime member of the Brooklyn-based publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse and cofounder of Bushel, a collectively run art and community space in the Catskills. This is her first novel.