The Life of the Mind - Christine Smallwood Audiobook

Written by Christine Smallwood
Read by Allyson Ryan
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

General Information
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Title: The Life of the Mind
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Christine Smallwood
Narrator: Allyson Ryan
Audiobook Copyright: 2021
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780593344910
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, Humor (Fiction)

File Information
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Media Format: MP3
Total Files: 7
Total Size: 195 MB
Bitrate: 64 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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“[A] jewel of a debut . . . abundantly satisfying.”—Jia Tolentino, The
New Yorker

A witty, intelligent novel of an American woman on the edge, by a
brilliant new voice in fiction—“the glorious love child of Ottessa
Moshfegh and Sally Rooney” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

As an adjunct professor of English in New York City with no hope of
finding a permanent position, Dorothy feels “like a janitor in the
temple who continued to sweep because she had nowhere else to be but
who had lost her belief in the essential sanctity of the enterprise.”
No one but her boyfriend knows that she’s just had a miscarriage, not
even her therapists—Dorothy has two of them. Nor can she bring herself
to tell the other women in her life: her friends, her doctor, her
mentor, her mother. The freedom not to be a mother is one of the
victories of feminism. So why does she feel like a failure?
Piercingly intelligent and darkly funny, The Life of the Mind is a
novel about endings: of youth, of professional aspiration, of
possibility, of the illusion that our minds can ever free us from the
tyranny of our bodies. And yet Dorothy’s mind is all she has to make
sense of a world largely out of her control, one where disaster looms
and is already here, where things happen but there is no plot. There
is meaning, however, if Dorothy figures out where to look, and as the
weeks pass and the bleeding subsides, she finds it in the most
unlikely places, from a Las Vegas poolside to a living room karaoke
session. In literature—as Dorothy well knows—stories end. But life, as
they say, goes on.