EAN: 9781529928877

ANTHONY JESSICA THE MOST

From 'one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page' (Laura Van Den Berg)  a
tightly wound  consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife  for fans of Jennifer Egan 
Jonathan Franzen and Taffy Brodesser-Akner  LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024 A
Barnes & Noble BEST BOOK of 2024 COSMOPOLITAN Novella of the Year 2024   'Clever  moving and
unexpected. A brilliantly deft and subtle story .' - Emma Healey  author of Elizabeth is
Missing  ---  A warm Sunday in November 1957. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth  carrying Laika 
the doomed Soviet dog  a couple begin their day.  Virgil Beckett  an insurance salesman  isn't
particularly happy in his job but he fulfils the role  playing golf with the partners  drinking
in the bar  chasing the women. Kathleen Beckett  once a promising tennis champion  with a key
shot up her sleeve called 'The Most'  is now a mother and homemaker.  Somehow these two  who
have been together since college  have fallen into the roles expected of them - the prescribed
suburban dream they have been sold as something to covet  something that will fulfil their
lives. But on this unseasonably warm  early November Sunday  Kathleen wakes up and decides that
she will not be accompanying her family to church.  No  she feels like a swim.  She unearths
her old  red bathing suit and descends into the apartment complex pool no other resident uses.
And she doesn't want to come out...  ___   Praise for Jessica Anthony's ENTER THE AARDVARK   'A
truly fresh piece of art' Percival Everett  'Fresh  witty  smart' Kate Atkinson  'Highly
inventive' Joshua Ferris  'A writer possessed of mind-bending talents' Heidi Julavits

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