Fool's Paradise (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781564784223)

"Marriage kills love. That's why people get married." The unmarried and unemployed narrator of A Fool's Paradise is seeing a married man and must, because of her social security, apply and interview for jobs she does not want. Her life is founded on unsustainable contradictions. As her lover considers recommitting to his wife and as her poverty becomes increasingly dire, she confronts the temptations and contradictions of conventional success, but she is also overcome by jealousy and dissatisfaction. She travels to Russia and spies on her lover's wife. She takes a job that she hates. This precise and intensely personal novel describes the narrator's growing sense that freedom becomes, itself, a kind of routine, and shows her burgeoning desire to break out of it.

Author: Anita Konkka
ISBN-10: 1564784223
ISBN-13: 9781564784223
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2006
Pages: 133
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.40w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/22/2006 pg. 32
Booklist 07/01/2006 pg. 30
Entertainment Weekly 08/04/2006 pg. 72