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Malaise Hardcover - 2002

by Nancy Lemann


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"A search for love, home, and meaning set between the blazing southern California border town of Esperanza and the old-world haunts of New York," Malaise "is a romantic comedy of manners from a novelist of incomparable style and wit."

Fleming Ford is an Alabama girl exiled to the West Coast, where she is torn between devotion to her husband and a dangerous love for an older Englishman who seems to embody the formality and culture lacking in her new home. California is to Fleming a desert of many kinds, but ultimately she is reluctantly drawn into the culture that she satirizes -- its beautiful vistas, its citizens' endless quest for wellness, the narcotic effect of its perpetual sun. She soon finds herself at the mall or with a botanist, facialist, yoga instructor, or visceral manipulator. She must come to terms with the inhabitants' ceaseless plea to relax, their phobia of weather, their love of malls.

Newly pregnant with her third child while her geologist husband is away searching for water in the barren deserts of the American West, Fleming seeks relief in the companionship of Mr. Lieberman, a British mogul sojourning in Los Angeles. To her, he represents the tragic yet glamorous Old World, the milestones of the twentieth century, and the battlefields of Europe.

Will Fleming risk her marriage and her honor for the love of an aging tycoon? Acclaimed for her Walker Percy-like portraits of Southern society, Nancy Lemann here trains her eye on the contrasts between the East Coast and the West, the Old World and the New, in a captivating story that reflects on universal themes of place, history, and home.

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It was the spring in New York, that uncertain season.

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  • Title Malaise
  • Author Nancy Lemann
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner Book Company, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date June 11, 2002
  • ISBN 9780743215480 / 0743215486
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.72 x 5.82 x 0.91 in (22.15 x 14.78 x 2.31 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects California, Psychological fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002017584
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
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