false 10025178 166684 2040612 1931336040 9781931336048 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193915349m/2040612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193915349s/2040612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2040612.The_Understory 4.49 43 Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Set in New York City and in a Buddhist monastery in rural Vermont, The Understory is both a mystery and a psychological study and reveals that repression and self-expression can be equally destructive. Ex-lawyer Jack Gorse walls off his inner life with elaborate rituals and routines. Threatened with eviction from his longtime apartment and caught off-guard by an attraction to a near stranger, he takes steps that lead to the dramatic dissolution of the existence he's known.

"I am amazed and moved by The Understory. It is uniquely tender in its treatment of the isolated mind's quest to keep alive what is most radiant and most fragile in the face of the brutal catastrophe of reality."
--Franz Wright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Walking to Martha's Vineyard]]> 763626 4.49 43 19 2007 5 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 06 05:37:23 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 05:37:23 -0800 2007 more...]]>