Fool's Paradise

by Anita Konkka

Book Overview

Marriage kills love. That's why people get married. The unmarried and unemployed narrator of A Fool's Paradise is seeing a married man and must, because of her social security, apply and interview for jobs she does not want. Her life is founded on unsustainable contradictions. As her lover considers recommitting to his wife and as her poverty becomes increasingly dire, she confronts the temptations and contradictions of conventional success, but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564784223
• ISBN13: 9781564784223
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 7.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher