Do the Windows Open? Paperback - 1998
by Julie Hecht
"Do the Windows Open?" is a series of hilarious linked tales documenting the mania of the modern day in devastating detail. The beguiling and alienated narrator has set herself the never-ending goal of photographing a world-renowned reproductive surgeon, Walden Pond, the ponds of Nantucket, and all the houses Anne Sexton ever lived in. What emerges is a unique sensibility under siege.
Summary
The beguiling and alienated narrator-who finds nearly everything interesting and almost nothing clear-has set herself the never-ending goal of photographing a world-renowned reproductive surgeon, Walden Pond, the ponds of Nantucket, and all the houses Anne Sexton ever lived in.
On the way, she searches for organically grown vegetables, windows that open, and an endodontist who acts like a normal person. She sometimes compares herself unfavorably to Jacqueline Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, and Princess Diana.
What emerges is a unique sensibility under siege. This is a remarkably original literary performance, one that speaks to anyone looking for the refuge laughter offers from life in an absurd world.
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- Title Do the Windows Open?
- Author Julie Hecht
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 1998-02-01
- Features Dust Cover
- ISBN 9780140271454 / 0140271457
- Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.77 x 5.12 x 0.62 in (19.74 x 13.00 x 1.57 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Short stories, Short stories, American
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96033139
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- New York Times, 02/08/1998, Page 28
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