Early morning riser / Katherine Heiny.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525659341
- ISBN: 052565934X
- ISBN: 9780593082720
- ISBN: 0593082729
- Physical Description: 317 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | Jane has fallen in love with Duncan, a man who has slept with most of the women in town. He's so agreeable that he still mows his ex-wife's lawn and allows his co-worker Jimmy free access to his apartment. When Duncan is injured in a serious car crash, Jane has to figure out how to find happiness. Duncan is charming, good-natured, and handsome. He has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City, Michigan. Jane sees Duncan's old girlfriends everywhere, and while she may be able to come to terms with dating the world's most prolific seducer of women, she wishes she didn't have to share him quite so widely. His ex-wife, Aggie, still has Duncan mow her lawn. And his coworker Jimmy comes and goes from Duncan's apartment at the most inopportune times. Jane wonders how the relationship is supposed to work with all these people in it. Not to mention most of the other residents of Boyne City, who freely share with Jane their opinions of her choices. After a terrible car crash, Jane's life is permanently intertwined with Duncan, his ex-wife Aggie, and his co-worker Jimmy. And she knows she will never have Duncan to herself. -- adapted from jacket |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Divorced people > Fiction. Families > Fiction. Friendship > Fiction. Traffic accidents > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. Michigan > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Humorous fiction. |
Available copies
- 43 of 44 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Scoville Memorial Library - Salisbury.
Holds
- 2 current holds with 44 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Show Only Available Copies
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scoville Memorial Library - Salisbury | FIC HEINY (Text) | 37538147597765 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Electronic resources
Early Morning Riser : A Novel
Click an element below to view details:
Summary
Early Morning Riser : A Novel
Alternately bittersweet and laugh-out-loud funny, a wise, bighearted novel of love, disaster, and unconventional family--from the acclaimed author of Standard Deviation , who has been called the "literary descendant of Jane Austen, sharing Austen's essentially comic world view" (NPR). Jane falls in love with Duncan easily. He is charming, good-natured, and handsome but unfortunately, he has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City, Michigan. Jane sees Duncan's old girlfriends everywhere--at restaurants, at the grocery store, even three towns away. While Jane may be able to come to terms with dating the world's most prolific seducer of women, she wishes she did not have to share him quite so widely. His ex-wife, Aggie, a woman with shiny hair and pale milkmaid skin, still has Duncan mow her lawn. His coworker, Jimmy, comes and goes from Duncan's apartment at the most inopportune times. Sometimes Jane wonders if a relationship can even work with three people in it--never mind four. Five if you count Aggie's eccentric husband, Gary. Not to mention all the other residents of Boyne City, who freely share with Jane their opinions of her choices. But any notion Jane had of love and marriage changes with one terrible car crash. Soon Jane's life is permanently intertwined with Duncan's, Aggie's, and Jimmy's, and Jane knows she will never have Duncan to herself. But could it be possible that a deeper kind of happiness is right in front of Jane's eyes? Katherine Heiny's Early Morning Riser is her most astonishingly wonderful work to date.