{"product_id":"divorcing-9781681374949","title":"Divorcing","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow back in print for the first time since 1969, a\u003c\/b\u003e stunning novel about childhood, marriage, and divorce by one of the most interesting minds of the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDream and reality overlap in \u003ci\u003eDivorcing\u003c\/i\u003e, a book in which divorce is not just a question of a broken marriage but names a rift that runs right through the inner and outer worlds of Sophie Blind, its brilliant but desperate protagonist. Can the rift be mended? Perhaps in the form of a novel, one that goes back from present-day New York to Sophie's childhood in pre-World War II Budapest, that revisits the divorce between her Freudian father and her fickle mother, and finds a place for a host of further tensions and contradictions in her present life. The question that haunts \u003ci\u003eDivorcing\u003c\/i\u003e, however, is whether any novel can be fleet and bitter and true and light enough to gather up all the darkness of a given life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSusan Taubes's startlingly original novel was published in 1969 but largely ignored at the time; after the author's tragic early death, it was forgotten. Its republication presents a chance to discover a splintered, glancing, caustic, and lyrical work by a dazzlingly intense and inventive writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Taubes\u003c\/b\u003e (1928-1969) was born to a Jewish family in Hungary. The daughter of a psychoanalyst, Taubes emigrated to the US in 1939 and studied religion at Harvard. She married the philosopher and scholar Jacob Taubes and taught religion at Columbia University from 1960-69. She committed suicide in 1969, soon after the publication of \u003ci\u003eDivorcing\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Rieff\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of ten books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSlaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSwimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e; and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and its Ironies\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641491984658,"sku":"9781681374949","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1ee29165-42a6-4c80-92a9-0a5be8442916.jpg?v=1733019530","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/divorcing-9781681374949","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}