Torpor

By Chris Kraus

Subjects: Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, general, Europe, eastern, fiction, Fiction, Man-woman relationships, New york (n.y.), fiction

Description: A novel set in 1991, post-MTV, pre-AOL: Sylvie, longing for a life more like the TV show thirtysomething, sets off with her husband, Columbia University professor Jerome, to Romania to adopt a child.