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Worthy

Worthy

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Worthy is the story of Ludmila--or Worthy, as she comes to be known--a "former" con artist from Eastern Europe managing an eccentric, failing strip club in Tampa for her lover, Leo. Though there is much she won't reveal, she gradually unravels the story of her love affair twenty years earlier with Theodore, an erratic literature professor who embraces an ideology built around what he calls the Four Books: Mann's Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, Nabokov's Despair, Melville's The Confidence-Man, and Camus's The Fall. Seduced by the scofflaws in these novels, Theodore and Worthy transform themselves into confidence artists, a tempest of shared madness that carries them from New York to Mexico City to the South of France. Despite her sly humor calculated to charm, Worthy's picaresque narrative leaves the listener with deepening questions, from what happened to Theodore to the reasons she abandoned her son Mirek.

With the linguistic acrobatics of Eimear McBride's A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing and the confessional force of The Fall, Lisa Birnbaum weaves a lively tale of elusive truth about finding our way in the world, as love is inevitably lost and left behind.

Author: Lisa Birnbaum
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 05/03/2016
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781938103483

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2016

About the Author
Lisa Birnbaum s work in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and spoken word performance has been supported by numerous grants and writers residencies. Her writing has appeared in such journals as "Connecticut Review, Puerto del Sol, Quarter After Eight," and "Kestrel." She teaches writing and literature at the University of Tampa and lives in Tampa, FL.
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