The Guest Lecture by Riker, Martin
The Guest Lecture by Riker, Martin

The Guest Lecture

With "a voice as clear, sincere, and wry as any I've read in current American fiction" (Joshua...
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Author: Martin Riker
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Language: English
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The Guest Lecture by Riker, Martin

The Guest Lecture

$33.37
The Guest Lecture by Riker, Martin

The Guest Lecture

$33.37
Author: Martin Riker
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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With "a voice as clear, sincere, and wry as any I've read in current American fiction" (Joshua Cohen), Martin Riker's poignant and startlingly original novel asks how to foster a brave mind in anxious times, following a newly jobless academic rehearsing a speech on John Maynard Keynes for a surprising audienceIn a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to her sleeping husband and daughter. Anxious that she is grossly underprepared for a talk she is presenting tomorrow on optimism and John Maynard Keynes, she has resolved to practice by using an ancient rhetorical method of assigning parts of her speech to different rooms in her house and has brought along a comforting albeit imaginary companion to keep her on track--Keynes himself.Yet as she wanders with increasing alarm through the rooms of her own consciousness, Abby finds herself straying from her prepared remarks on economic history, utopia, and Keynes's pragmatic optimism. A lapsed optimist herself, she has been struggling under the burden of supporting a family in an increasingly hostile America after being denied tenure at the university where she teaches. Confronting her own future at a time of global darkness, Abby undertakes a quest through her memories to ideas hidden in the corners of her mind--a piecemeal intellectual history from Cicero to Lewis Carroll to Queen Latifah--as she asks what a better world would look like if we told our stories with more honest and more hopeful imaginations.With warm intellect, playful curiosity, and an infectious voice, Martin Riker acutely animates the novel of ideas with a beating heart and turns one woman's midnight crisis into the performance of a lifetime.

Author: Martin Riker
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Published: 01/24/2023
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780802160416


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/19/2022
Booklist 11/01/2022 pg. 24
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2022
Shelf Awareness 01/22/2023
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