The Resource Act of god, Jill Ciment
Act of god, Jill Ciment
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The item Act of god, Jill Ciment represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
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- Summary
- t's the summer of 2015, Brooklyn. The city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, a feckless romantic who's mistaken her own eccentricity for originality, discover something ominous in their hall closet: it seems to be phosphorescent; it's a mushroom . . . and it's sprouting from their wall. Upstairs, their landlady, Vida Cebu, a Shakespearian actress far more famous for her TV commercials for Ziberax (the first female sexual enhancement pill) than for her stage work, discovers that a petite Russian girl, a runaway au pair, has been secretly living in her guest-room closet. When the police arrest the intruder, they find a second mushroom, also glowing, under the intruder's bedding. Soon the HAZMAT squad arrives, and the four women are forced to evacuate the contaminated row house with only the clothes on their backs. As the mold infestation spreads from row house to high-rise, and frightened, bewildered New Yorkers wait out this plague (is it an act of God?) on their city and property, the four women become caught up in a centrifugal nightmare. Part horror story, part screwball comedy, Jill Ciment's brilliant suspense novel looks at what happens when our lives--so seemingly set and ordered, yet so precariously balanced--break down in the wake of calamity. A novel, as well, about love (familial and profound) and how it can appear from the most unlikely circumstances
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Act of god
- Title
- Act of god
- Statement of responsibility
- Jill Ciment
- Subject
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- trueActors and actresses
- Molds (Fungi) -- Fiction
- FICTION / Horror
- trueSecond chances
- trueNew York City
- Molds (Fungi)
- trueBlack humor
- trueMolds (Fungi)
- trueNeighbors
- trueLandlords
- trueHomeless women
- trueApartments
- FICTION / Humorous
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Women -- Fiction
- New York (State) -- New York
- FICTION / Literary
- trueTwin sisters
- Fiction
- trueSenior women
- trueHazardous materials
- Black humor (Literature)
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- t's the summer of 2015, Brooklyn. The city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, a feckless romantic who's mistaken her own eccentricity for originality, discover something ominous in their hall closet: it seems to be phosphorescent; it's a mushroom . . . and it's sprouting from their wall. Upstairs, their landlady, Vida Cebu, a Shakespearian actress far more famous for her TV commercials for Ziberax (the first female sexual enhancement pill) than for her stage work, discovers that a petite Russian girl, a runaway au pair, has been secretly living in her guest-room closet. When the police arrest the intruder, they find a second mushroom, also glowing, under the intruder's bedding. Soon the HAZMAT squad arrives, and the four women are forced to evacuate the contaminated row house with only the clothes on their backs. As the mold infestation spreads from row house to high-rise, and frightened, bewildered New Yorkers wait out this plague (is it an act of God?) on their city and property, the four women become caught up in a centrifugal nightmare. Part horror story, part screwball comedy, Jill Ciment's brilliant suspense novel looks at what happens when our lives--so seemingly set and ordered, yet so precariously balanced--break down in the wake of calamity. A novel, as well, about love (familial and profound) and how it can appear from the most unlikely circumstances
- Summary
- In the middle of a summer heat wave in Brooklyn, New York, phosphorescent mushrooms are found in two apartments buildings causing four residents to evacuate while the HAZMAT squad attempts to contain it. But as it spreads from row house to high-rise, some bewildered New Yorkers are left questioning whether this is an act of god.
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- 10402609
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1953-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ciment, Jill
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women
- Molds (Fungi)
- New York (N.Y.)
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Humorous
- FICTION / Horror
- Molds (Fungi)
- New York (State)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Act of god, Jill Ciment
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn881406944
- Extent
- 1 volume.
- Isbn
- 9780307911704
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2014012087
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)881406944
- Label
- Act of god, Jill Ciment
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn881406944
- Extent
- 1 volume.
- Isbn
- 9780307911704
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2014012087
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)881406944
Subject
- trueActors and actresses
- trueApartments
- trueBlack humor
- Black humor (Literature)
- FICTION / Horror
- FICTION / Humorous
- FICTION / Literary
- Fiction
- trueHazardous materials
- trueHomeless women
- trueLandlords
- Molds (Fungi)
- trueMolds (Fungi)
- Molds (Fungi) -- Fiction
- trueNeighbors
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- New York (State) -- New York
- trueNew York City
- trueSecond chances
- trueSenior women
- trueTwin sisters
- Women -- Fiction
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