Heroic Measures (Vintage Contemporaries)
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (774 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307386783 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jill Ciment was born in Montreal, Canada. Ciment is a professor at the University of Florida. She lives in Gainesville, Florida. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts, a NEA Japan Fellowship Prize, two New York State Fellowships for the Arts, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowshi
. Ruth is a retired teacher and Chekhov devotee, and Alex is an artist, currently adding colorful illuminations to the couples' old FBI files. (In scenes that border on parody, the local news adopts a Danger in the Tunnel graphic and runs viewer polls about whether terrorists take drugs.) Meanwhile, the Cohens' beloved dachshund, Dorothy, falls ill and has to be taken to an uptown animal hospital. Ciment's spare and surprisingly gripping novel details one long weekend in the life of Ruth and Alex Cohen, an elderly New York couple hoping to sell their East Village apartment of 45 years. As they ready for an open house, a gas tanker truck gets stuck in the Midtown tunnel, seizing the city with gridlock and fear of a terrorist attack. From Publishers Weekly St
The basis for the major motion picture 5 Flights Up starring Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman.New York City is on high alert—a gasoline truck is “stuck” in the Midtown tunnel and the driver has fled. Over the course of forty-eight hours, as the mystery of the missing truck driver terrorizes the city and the dachshund’s life hangs in the balance, the bidding war over their apartment becomes a barometer for collective hope and despair. Told in shifting points of view—Alex’s, Ruth’s, and the little dog’s—Heroic Measures is a moving, deft novel about urban anxiety and the love that deepens over years.. Through panic and gridlock, Alex and Ruth must transport their beloved old dachshund—whose back legs are suddenly paralyzed—to the animal hospital, using a cutting board as a stretcher. But this is also the weekend when Alex and Ruth must sell the apartment in which they have lived for most of th
A Slim Novel That Packs A Big Punch Jill I. Shtulman This is an elegantly-written, slice-of-life novel that focuses on a fraught 48-hour period in New York City. A reported terrorist has just rammed his gasoline tank into the Midtown Tunnel, the populace is holding its breath, and yet an elderly couple, Alex and Ruth, have bigger concerns: their 12-year-old dachshund, Dorothy -- the child. Lazy Day Gardener said A re-affirmation of the human (and canine) spirit.. Dorothy the Dachshund, aka Dottie, is the aging and beloved companion of seventy-ish couple Alex and Ruth. Life reaches a crisis for all three on the day that they schedule an open house for their New York walk-up apartment, a terrorist wrecks a (bomb laden?) truck in a nearby tunnel, and Dorothy wakes up paralyzed.Ciment is a master of. Seckseeguy said Fabulous. This is an awesome book about how ordinary lives continue even during moments of crisis. Heroic Measures follows lifelong New Yorkers Alex and Ruth and their beloved dachshund Dorothy as they attempt to sell their fifth-floor walk-up and worry about Dorothy, who requires back surgery, all while a possible terrorist threat envelops Manha