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02415aam a22003018i 4500 001 AA14378AF17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240403010045 008 230616t20242024nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023024641 020 $a 0593801377 020 $a 9780593801376 035 $a (OCoLC)1388209656 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR6111 U68 B58 2024 100 1 $a Kunzru, Hari, $d 1969- $e author. 245 10 $a Blue ruin / $c Hari Kunzru. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2024. 300 $a pages cm 520 $a "Once, Jay was an artist. Shortly after graduating from his London art school, he was tipped for greatness, a promising career already taking shape before him. Now, undocumented in the United States, he lives out of his car and makes a living as an essential worker, delivering groceries in a wealthy area of upstate New York. The pandemic is still at its height - the greater public panicked in quarantine - and though he has returned to work, Jay hasn't recovered from the effects of a recent Covid case. Jay arrives at a house set in an enormous acreage of woodland only to find the last person he ever expected to see again: Alice, a former lover from his art school days. Their relationship was tumultuous and destructive, ultimately ending when she ghosted him and left for America with his best friend and fellow artist, Rob. In the twenty years since, their fortunes could not be more different: as Jay teeters on the edge of collapse, Alice and Rob have found prosperity in a life surrounded by beauty. Ashamed, Jay hopes she won't recognize him behind his dirty surgical mask; when she does, she invites him to recover on the property - where an erratic gallery owner and his girlfriend are isolating as well - setting a reckoning decades in the making into motion. Gripping and brilliantly orchestrated, Blue Ruin moves back and forth through time to deliver an extraordinary portrait of an artist as he reunites with his past and confronts the world he once loved and left behind"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Artists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240403014322.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AA14378AF17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search