A Joy To Be Hidden is set in a vividly recreated late-90s New York City. The protagonist is Alice Stein, a graduate student whose father died a year before, and who has now lost her grandmother. In the process of sorting through the grandmother's belongings, Alice unlocks a family secret. In addition to its wisdom and rich humour, the novel is full of memorable characters. We can never quite forget the title quote--It Is a joy to be hidden, and a disaster not to be found (D. W. Winnicott)--and we discover, over the course of the novel, that it applies to all its characters.
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- CaOOCEL
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- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-us-ny
- ISBN
- 9781773900087 9781773900117
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.F7379
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- J69 2019eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (275 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00978730 (OCoLC)1080220249 (CaOOCEL)457260
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Table of Contents
- A JOY TO BE HIDDEN 1
- A JOY TO BE HIDDEN 3
- PROLOGUE 9
- November 1998 9
- Every Womans Standard Medical Guide 12
- PART ONE 19
- September 1998 21
- Linstant de ma mort 25
- The Joys of Yiddish 27
- Basic Writings 39
- His own poems 52
- New Yorker 65
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle 67
- Ways of Reading Ways of Seeing 73
- 10. 79
- 11. 85
- 12. 89
- PART TWO 93
- Nov 1998 95
- Every Womans Medical Guide 96
- The Shining 109
- Dora 111
- 10. 149
- To the Lighthouse 150
- West Side Story Rites of Spring 151
- Étant donné 152
- 11. 159
- Dear Alice 163
- Bella 163
- PART THREE 165
- Bella 167
- PART FOUR 185
- Great Expectations 207
- 10. 239
- National Geographic 240
- 11. 243
- 12. 247
- The Real World 248
- 13. 253
- 14. 259
- 15. 263
- PART FIVE 265
- Helen 267
- Acknowledgements 281
- Sources 283
- The Instant of My Death Demeure Fiction and Testimony Aspects of the Novel 283