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The Frequency of Souls
Meet George Mahoney, designer of refrigerators and a real middle-of-the-road kind of guy. Even his wife describes him as "passive-passive." What changes all this is the arrival of a new office mate, the youthful Niagara Spense. A six-foot, near-sighted scientist--whose personality makes up for her fashion sense--Niagara seeps into George's life and makes the unthinkable irresistible. George can't get enough of her and her incredible quest for electrical evidence of life after death. But are the sparks reallly flying? Or is Niagara merely providing a needed surge in George's static existence? As the two workers connect in this charming love story, George finds himself reevaluating his family, his career, and the protective shell he has so carefully constructed to guard against the dangers of love and an active imagination.
Book Details
- Publisher: Picador USA
- Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2005
- Pages: 244
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.79in - 5.54in - 0.65in - 0.74lb
- EAN: 9780312424855
- Categories: • Literary• World Literature - American - 20th Century
About the Author
Zuravleff, Mary Kay: - Mary Kay Zuravleff is also the author of The Bowl Is Already Broken, which The New York Times praised as "a tart, affectionate satire of the museum world's bickering and scheming," and The Frequency of Souls, which the Chicago Tribune deemed "a beguiling and wildly inventive first novel." Honors for her work include the American Academy's Rosenthal Award and the James Jones First Novel Award, and she has been nominated for the Orange Prize. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she serves on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and is a cofounder of the D.C. Women Writers Group.
Praise for this book
"Beguiling and wildly inventive...A funny and wholly original love story that weds the everyday to the supernatural." --Chicago Tribune
"Read this book! Zuravleff fashions small moments of comic wonder in this novel of family and FM frequencies, magic and flirting, metaphysics and doughnuts." --San Diego Tribune "Engaging...Zuravleff's insightful yet gentle rendering of the absurd [allows] readers to connect fully with her quirky and endearing characters." --The New York Times Book Review "Page after page, the descriptions of the novel are laugh-out- loud funny. Smart and refreshingly tender...with a stylish ebullience reminiscent of Anne Tyler." --News & Observer (Raleigh)