{"product_id":"still-life-with-monkey-9781589881297","title":"Still Life with Monkey","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Stark and compelling . . . Rigorously unsentimental yet suffused with emotion: possibly the best work yet from an always stimulating writer.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Katharine Weber's \u003ci\u003eStill Life With Monkey\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautifully wrought paean of praise for the ordinary pleasures taken for granted by the able-bodied. In precise and often luminous prose, with intelligence and tenderness, Weber's latest novel examines the question of what makes a life worth living.\"--\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] deeply but delicately penetrating novel.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Weber's unsentimental and poignant examination of what does and does not make life worth living is a heartbreaking triumph.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A brilliantly crafted novel, brimming with heart.\"--Tayari Jones, author of \u003ci\u003eAn American Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuncan Wheeler is a successful architect who savors the quotidian pleasures in life until a car accident leaves him severely paralyzed and haunted by the death of his young assistant. Now, Duncan isn't sure what there is left to live for, when every day has become \"a broken series of unsuccessful gestures.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuncan and his wife, Laura, find themselves in conflict as Duncan's will to live falters. Laura grows desperate to help him. An art conservator who has her own relationship to the repair of broken things, Laura brings home a highly trained helper monkey--a tufted capuchin named Ottoline--to assist Duncan with basic tasks. Duncan and Laura fall for this sweet, comical, Nutella-gobbling little creature, and Duncan's life appears to become more tolerable, fuller, and funnier. Yet the question persists: Is it \u003ci\u003eenough\u003c\/i\u003e? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKatharine Weber is a masterful observer of humanity, and \u003ci\u003eStill Life with Monkey\u003c\/i\u003e, full of tenderness and melancholy, explores the conflict between the will to live and the desire to die.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatharine Weber\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five acclaimed novels--\u003ci\u003eTrue Confections\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTriangle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Women\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Music Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eObjects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear\u003c\/i\u003e--and a memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Memory Of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family's Legacy of Infidelities\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eObjects in Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Music Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Little Women\u003c\/i\u003e were all named Notable Books by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e; two of her novels were long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and \u003ci\u003eThe Music Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e has been published in twelve languages. Katharine holds the Thomas Chair in creative writing at Kenyon College.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Paul Dry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50357265367314,"sku":"9781589881297","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d361ab22-4895-4291-8667-0259d4b7bc00.jpg?v=1728322010","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/still-life-with-monkey-9781589881297","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}