This Room Is Made of Noise

While trying to drum up additional work, down-on-his-luck handyman Don Lank spies an imitation Tiffany lamp shining...
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Author: Stephen Schottenfeld
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This Room Is Made of Noise by Schottenfeld, Stephen

This Room Is Made of Noise

$42.93

This Room Is Made of Noise

$42.93
Author: Stephen Schottenfeld
Format: Paperback
Language: English
While trying to drum up additional work, down-on-his-luck handyman Don Lank spies an imitation Tiffany lamp shining in the front window of a house. He offers the elderly widow who answers the door $800 for it--knowing he can sell it to a dealer for several hundred dollars more than that. Only the lamp turns out to be real--and worth at least $15,000.

Feeling both delighted by and guilty about his good fortune, Don returns most of the money to the original owner, Millie Prall. He also offers to make a few repairs around her deteriorating house--making it easier and safer for her to navigate the space in the wake of her husband's death. As Millie's dementia worsens, Don finds his life more and more enmeshed with hers, driving her to medical appointments, shopping for her groceries, cooking her meals, handling her finances, and increasingly overseeing her care--while simultaneously trying to repair his relationships with his father, his ex-wife, and his stepkids.

In this quietly mesmerizing novel, no one, including the protagonist, is ever entirely sure of their motivations. Existing in the liminal spaces between altruism and greed, This Room Is Made of Noise deftly explores the shades of gray that lie between our desires and our demons.

Author: Stephen Schottenfeld
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 04/04/2023
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780299341343


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/08/2023

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