![]() ![]() ![]() of Speculation, Offill, who also writes children’s books, chooses a young mother to narrate the story, but it is the way she tells it that is mysterious, if not eccentric. ![]() Her first novel, Last Things, tells the story of an eight-year-old girl whose mother is a mystery. of Speculation, a new novel that contemplates marriage and motherhood in Brooklyn, New York, Jenny Offill establishes herself as the latter-a writer who successfully reinvents her craft. In his 1967 essay “The Literature of Exhaustion,” John Barth outlines three types of artists: the technically old-fashioned artist, the technically up-to date non-artist, and the technically up-to-date artist. ![]()
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