Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe, John Nathan
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- ISBN: 0802150616
- Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
- Pub. Date: January 1994
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Comments from the Seller: 1994-01-13 Paperback Very Good Very Good Condition. Binding tight, pages clean. Slight wear to cover. Different cover (all white, with black picture and writing). Lovely copy!
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Synopsis
Oe’s most important novel, A Personal Matter, has been called by The New York Times “close to a perfect novel.” In A Personal Matter, Oe has chosen a difficult, complex though universal subject: how does one face and react to the birth of an abnormal child? Bird, the protagonist, is a young man of 27 with antisocial tendencies who more than once in his life, when confronted with a critical problem, has “cast himself adrift on a sea of whisky like a besotted Robinson Crusoe.” But he has never faced a crisis as personal or grave as the prospect of life imprisonment in the cage of his newborn infant-monster. Should he keep it? Dare he kill it? Before he makes his final decision, Bird’s entire past seems to rise up before him, revealing itself to be a nightmare of self-deceit. The relentless honesty with which Oe portrays his hero — or antihero — makes Bird one of the most unforgettable characters in recent fiction.
Life
"Oe Writes like a new American realist.... His prose is as direct and frank as an ice pick."
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