Read The Rest Is Done with Mirrors

The Rest Is Done with Mirrors

Carolyn See

4.9/5 (25320 ratings)

Description:The Rest is Done with Mirrors begins with a comic rape and ends—after much sexual swapping, wild parties, and sad betrayals—with two old friends (and lovers) staring at one another from opposite ends of a sofa, wondering what it all meant, anyway.The Rest is Done with Mirrors is a novel about married graduate students at UCLA - how they live, breed, fornicate, study and how they are corrupted. It is more than that. It is one of the most stunningly blunt portraits of university life to appear in modern fiction; a trip through a maze of crumbling identities and substandard housing, tireless antagonisms and elusive government grants, half-forgotten dreams and half-satisfied passions.Our guides through the maze are graduate students Edith Wong, the lower middle class WASP wife of Walter Wong, Chinese-American anthropologist; and Juan Ramirez, a Mexican-American biologist married to a painter. Their story is the story of a conspiracy between the university, the federal government and the great research-development organizations to absorb and use, for the purpose of Defense (death?), the talents and imaginations of our most gifted scientific graduate students.The prime target of the conspiracy is Juan Ramirez, recruited by an organization called AXEL, and told to develop microbes that will destroy the enemy. What follows Juan's recruitment are superbly etched episodes telling of Juan's work as a spy for a black African country; his wife Lorraine's flagrant infidelities; Edith Wong's discovery of Walter fornicating with a strange girl on a gigantic bed of morning glories; and a great deal else, some of it very funny, much of it very true to life and true to the pain.As the book closes, Edith and Juan are left to confront one another. The author writers that there were changes in their small lives, "but the general cast of characters remained the same. There are only two hundred people in the world ... the rest is done with mirrors."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Rest Is Done with Mirrors. To get started finding The Rest Is Done with Mirrors, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 044921799X

Description: The Rest is Done with Mirrors begins with a comic rape and ends—after much sexual swapping, wild parties, and sad betrayals—with two old friends (and lovers) staring at one another from opposite ends of a sofa, wondering what it all meant, anyway.The Rest is Done with Mirrors is a novel about married graduate students at UCLA - how they live, breed, fornicate, study and how they are corrupted. It is more than that. It is one of the most stunningly blunt portraits of university life to appear in modern fiction; a trip through a maze of crumbling identities and substandard housing, tireless antagonisms and elusive government grants, half-forgotten dreams and half-satisfied passions.Our guides through the maze are graduate students Edith Wong, the lower middle class WASP wife of Walter Wong, Chinese-American anthropologist; and Juan Ramirez, a Mexican-American biologist married to a painter. Their story is the story of a conspiracy between the university, the federal government and the great research-development organizations to absorb and use, for the purpose of Defense (death?), the talents and imaginations of our most gifted scientific graduate students.The prime target of the conspiracy is Juan Ramirez, recruited by an organization called AXEL, and told to develop microbes that will destroy the enemy. What follows Juan's recruitment are superbly etched episodes telling of Juan's work as a spy for a black African country; his wife Lorraine's flagrant infidelities; Edith Wong's discovery of Walter fornicating with a strange girl on a gigantic bed of morning glories; and a great deal else, some of it very funny, much of it very true to life and true to the pain.As the book closes, Edith and Juan are left to confront one another. The author writers that there were changes in their small lives, "but the general cast of characters remained the same. There are only two hundred people in the world ... the rest is done with mirrors."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Rest Is Done with Mirrors. To get started finding The Rest Is Done with Mirrors, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

The Rest Is Done with Mirrors

The Rest Is Done with Mirrors

More Books

Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers

Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers

Golden Days

Golden Days

The Handyman

The Handyman

There Will Never Be Another You

There Will Never Be Another You

Dreaming: Hard Luck And Good Times In America

Dreaming: Hard Luck And Good Times In America

Making History

Making History

Rhine Maidens

Rhine Maidens

Mothers, Daughters

Mothers, Daughters

The Boy Who Could See Demons

The Boy Who Could See Demons