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The motion of the body through space : a novel  Cover Image Book Book

The motion of the body through space : a novel / Lionel Shriver.

Shriver, Lionel, (author.).

Summary:

Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington, recently and ignominiously redundant, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. Which should be good for his health, right? Yet as he joins the cult of fitness that seems increasingly to consume the whole of the Western world, her once-modest husband burgeons into an unbearable narcissist. Ignoring all his other obligations in the service of extreme sport, he engages a saucy, taunting personal trainer named Bambi, who treats his wife with contempt. When Remington announces his intention to compete in a legendarily grueling triathlon, MettleMan, Serenata is sure he's going to end up injured or dead-- but the stubbornness of an aging man in Lycra is not to be underestimated.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062328250
  • ISBN: 0062328255
  • Physical Description: 338 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Subject: Spouses > Fiction.
Older athletes > Fiction.
Marital conflict > Fiction.
Exercise addiction > Fiction.
Marathon running > Fiction.
Pride and vanity > Fiction.
Narcissism > Fiction.
Triathlon > Fiction.
Athletic trainers > Fiction.
Retirees > Fiction.
Upstate New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Genre: Satire.
Psychological fiction.

Available copies

  • 15 of 15 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Degenstein. (Show)

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 15 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Degenstein Community Library FIC SHRIVER (Text) 35031301163900 Adult Fiction Available -
Allentown Public Library SHRIVER, LIONEL (Text) 34455006702852 Adult Fiction Available -
Bethlehem Main Library f (Text) 33062009314171 Adult Fiction Available -
Clymer Library FIC SHR (Text) 32596000446665 Adult Fiction Available -
Dover Area Community Library Adults SHR Fiction (Text) 34217000829499 Adult Area Available -
Easton Main Library SHRIVER (Text) 31901004433209 Adult Fiction Available -
Emmaus Public Library FIC SHRIVER, LIONEL (Text) 36446002011867 Adult Fiction Available -
Exeter Community Library SHR (Text) 33249024438636 Fiction Available -
Harbaugh-Thomas Library (Biglerville) FIC SHRIVER LIONEL (Text) 35740635610249 Fiction Available -
Lower Macungie Library FIC SHR (Text) 33400001485153 Adult Fiction Available -


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