02991cam a2200337 4500 531488158 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780374718824 0374718822 B07MYXBTG1 Amazon 831053f9-fddc-4df5-880c-c6e165264ce2 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4538753 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Comensal, Jorge. The Mutations [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3593kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. satire. HTML:<p><b>"Jorge Comensal's <i>The Mutations</i> oscillates masterfully between comedy and tragedy, gathering up in its pages a stupendous panoply of characters before whom the reader is never sure whether to smile in sympathy or pity." ?Fernando Aramburu, author of <i>Homeland</i></b></p> <p>Ramón Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when cancer of the tongue deprives him of the source of his power and livelihood: speech.</p> <p><i>The Mutations</i>, by Jorge Comensal, is a comedy tracing the metastasis of Ramón's cancer through his body and in the lives of his family members, colleagues, and doctors, dissecting the experience of illness and mapping the relationships both strengthened and frayed by its wake. Mateo and Paulina, his teenage children, struggle with the temptations of masturbation and binge eating, respectively. Ramón's melancholic oncologist is haunted by the memory of a young patient whom he was unable to save. His selfish pathologist believes Ramón's tumor holds the key to a major scientific breakthrough. And then there's Elodia, Ramón's pious maid, who brings him a foulmouthed parrot as a birthday gift. This lewd bird becomes Ramón's companion, confidant, and unlikely double.</p> <p>Paying homage to the works of forebears such as Sontag, Didion, Flaubert, and Tolstoy, and filled with a rough-hewn poetry of regret, rage, and finally resignation, <i>The Mutations</i> offers a profound but funny cross section of modern Mexican life, as well as a bold treatment of an unspeakable yet universal reality</p>. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Whittle, Charlotte. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=831053f9-fddc-4df5-880c-c6e165264ce2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=831053f9-fddc-4df5-880c-c6e165264ce2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=831053f9-fddc-4df5-880c-c6e165264ce2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)