The Resource Forty rooms, by Olga Grushin
Forty rooms, by Olga Grushin
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The item Forty rooms, by Olga Grushin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch (Open with Limited Services).
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "Forty rooms" is a conceit: it proposes that a modern woman will inhabit forty rooms in her lifetime. They form her biography, from childhood to death. For our protagonist, the much-loved child of a late marriage, the first rooms she is aware of as she nears the age of five are those that make up her family's Moscow apartment. We follow this child as she reaches adolescence, leaves home to study in America, and slowly discovers sexual happiness and love. But her hunger for adventure and her longing to be a great poet conspire to kill the affair. She seems to have made her choice. But one day she runs into a college classmate. He is sure of his path through life and is protective of her, and they eventually drift into an affair and marriage. What follows are the decades of births and deaths, the celebrations, material accumulations, and home comforts-- until one day, her children grown and gone, her husband absent, she finds herself alone except for the ghosts of her youth, who have come back to haunt and even taunt her. Compelling and complex, Forty Rooms is also profoundly affecting, its ending shattering but true. We know that Mrs. Caldwell (for that is the only name by which we know her) has died. Was it a life well lived? Quite likely. Was it a life complete? Does such a life ever really exist? Life is, after all, full of trade-offs and choices. Who is to say her path was not well taken? It is this ambiguity that is at the heart of this provocative novel
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 8 audio discs (9 hr.)
- Isbn
- 9781504666817
- Label
- Forty rooms
- Title
- Forty rooms
- Statement of responsibility
- by Olga Grushin
- Subject
-
- Domestic fiction
- Intellectual life -- Fiction
- Interpersonal attraction -- Fiction
- Moscow (Russia) -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Russian Americans -- Fiction
- Self-realization in women -- Fiction
- United States -- Fiction
- Women poets -- Fiction
- Ambition in women -- Fiction
- College students -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Forty rooms" is a conceit: it proposes that a modern woman will inhabit forty rooms in her lifetime. They form her biography, from childhood to death. For our protagonist, the much-loved child of a late marriage, the first rooms she is aware of as she nears the age of five are those that make up her family's Moscow apartment. We follow this child as she reaches adolescence, leaves home to study in America, and slowly discovers sexual happiness and love. But her hunger for adventure and her longing to be a great poet conspire to kill the affair. She seems to have made her choice. But one day she runs into a college classmate. He is sure of his path through life and is protective of her, and they eventually drift into an affair and marriage. What follows are the decades of births and deaths, the celebrations, material accumulations, and home comforts-- until one day, her children grown and gone, her husband absent, she finds herself alone except for the ghosts of her youth, who have come back to haunt and even taunt her. Compelling and complex, Forty Rooms is also profoundly affecting, its ending shattering but true. We know that Mrs. Caldwell (for that is the only name by which we know her) has died. Was it a life well lived? Quite likely. Was it a life complete? Does such a life ever really exist? Life is, after all, full of trade-offs and choices. Who is to say her path was not well taken? It is this ambiguity that is at the heart of this provocative novel
- Cataloging source
- BLACP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1971-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Grushin, Olga
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- LC call number
- PS3607.R85
- LC item number
- F67 2016ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
- fiction
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Read by Christa Lewis
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Lewis, Christa
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Ambition in women
- College students
- Intellectual life
- Interpersonal attraction
- Russian Americans
- Self-realization in women
- Women poets
- Moscow (Russia)
- United States
- Target audience
- general
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- Forty rooms, by Olga Grushin
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 8 audio discs (9 hr.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781504666817
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Note
- Set includes: 8 compact discs.
- Other physical details
- digital
- Publisher number
-
- ZPbpak
- ZEbpak
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
-
- ocn919966974
- (OCoLC)919966974
- System details
- Compact discs
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- Forty rooms, by Olga Grushin
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 8 audio discs (9 hr.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781504666817
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Note
- Set includes: 8 compact discs.
- Other physical details
- digital
- Publisher number
-
- ZPbpak
- ZEbpak
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
-
- ocn919966974
- (OCoLC)919966974
- System details
- Compact discs
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
Subject
- Domestic fiction
- Intellectual life -- Fiction
- Interpersonal attraction -- Fiction
- Moscow (Russia) -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Russian Americans -- Fiction
- Self-realization in women -- Fiction
- United States -- Fiction
- Women poets -- Fiction
- Ambition in women -- Fiction
- College students -- Fiction
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