Penguin Press (Penguin Publishing Group)
FRONTLIST | On Sale Date: August 1, 2017
ISBN 9780735221536, 0735221537
Hardcover | 304 pages |
Fiction / Literary
Stella Krakus, a curator at Manhattan’s renowned Central Museum of Art, is having the roughest week in approximately ever. Her soon-to-be ex-husband (the perfectly awful Whit Ghiscolmbe) is stalking her, a workplace romance with “a fascinating, hyper-rational narcissist” is in freefall, and a beloved colleague, Paul, has gone missing. Strange things are afoot: CeMArt’s current exhibit is sponsored by a Belgian multinational that wants to take over the world’s water supply, she unwittingly stars in a viral video that’s making the rounds, and her mother—the imperious, impossibly glamorous Caro—wants to have lunch. It’s almost more than she can overanalyze.
But the appearance of a strange map, depicting a mysterious 19th-century utopian settlement, sends Stella—a dogged expert in American graphics and fluidomanie (don’t ask)—on an all-consuming research mission. As she teases out the links between a haunting poem, several unusual novels, a counterfeiting scheme, and one of the museum’s colorful early benefactors, she discovers the unbearable secret that Paul’s been keeping, and charts a course out of the chaos of her own life. Pulsing with neurotic humor and dagger-sharp prose, Impossible Views of the World is a dazzling debut novel about how to make it through your early thirties with your mind and heart intact.
Some thoughts about the cover:
I'm utterly captivated by this cover, the colors and the motives (The museum, the city, the trees and the clouds, it's fantastic) on the cover just appeal to me in so many ways and I have to admit that I really, really desperately want to read this book.
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Yes, I like the cover too. I like how it leads me from the bottom to the upper part of the cover. I feel there is a tour guide beside me.
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