Hunters and Gatherers A Novel

Francine Prose

eBook - 2013

The New York Times–bestselling author takes on New Agers as one woman searches for meaning in this “brilliantly satiric but . . . sweet-natured” novel (Publishers Weekly). Thirty-year-old Martha is stagnating in a demeaning, woefully underpaid job as a fact-checker at frothy fashion magazine Mode and an unhappy relationship with an unrepentant jerk. But she stumbles upon an unlikely new circle of friends when she interrupts a goddess-worshipping ceremony on Fire Island and ends up rescuing its accident-prone leader, Isis Moonwagon, from the waves. From the steel skyscrapers of Manhattan to a sweat lodge in the Arizona desert, Martha chases fulfillment and self-actualization in the company of this group of opinionated, bumbling wom...en, but the revelations she receives are not necessarily what she expected. “Prose’s satiric vision could not be more sharply...

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Published
Open Road Media
Language
English
Main Author
Francine Prose
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
Format
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size3 GB
ISBN9781480445093
Release Date9/24/2013
Kindle Book
ISBN9781480445376
ASINB00EZEXBGW
Release Date9/24/2013
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781480445093
Release Date9/24/2013