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Title	:	The Great Perhaps
Author	:	Joe Meno
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	April 12th 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company (first published 2009)
Categories	:	Fiction. Adult Fiction. Family. Contemporary

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“This ambitious, adventurous writer... recalls Anton Chekhov with his amused appreciation of human foibles.”—Wendy Smith, Chicago Tribune

Jonathan, a paleontologist, is searching in vain for a prehistoric giant squid; his wife, Madeline, an animal behaviorist, cannot explain her failing experiment; their daughter Amelia is a disappointed teenage revolutionary; her younger sister, Thisbe, is on a frustrated search for God; and their grandfather, Henry, wants to disappear, limiting himself to eleven words a day, then ten, then nine - one less each day until he will speak no more. Each fears uncertainty and the possibilities that accompany it. When Jonathan and Madeline suddenly decide to separate, this nuclear family is split and forced to confront its own cowardice, finally coming to appreciate the cloudiness of this modern age.

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Original Title:	The Great Perhaps
ISBN:	0393304566 (ISBN13: 9780393304565)
Edition Language:	English URL http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=15617

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It feels like reading a fragment of drama of each character in different scenes. For each chapter, I'll be meeting each of them telling their side of stories. I love the 'calmness' in the story-telling, the flow was smooth, easy to understand even with few conflicts it was still written well. I love reading about Amelia and Thisbe-- bizarre stories, weirdly fascinating. I love story about Henry as well. His a bit of historical plot, a flashback, memories and childhood stuff which quite

Yeah! I like Joe Meno a lot and I think it's nice that here he's taking a swing at the great American Novel. And- this is awesome- I sent an e-mail to his publisher as soon as I found out this was coming out, like Hey can my store have an advance reader copy please? And they were like, Well, there's no bound ARCs, but would you like this 300-pages-of-printer-paper manuscript I've got? So I got to read this thing in a big sheaf of 8 1/2 x 11s. I felt very, very cool. And the book itself, for

!?! - Grandfather, pg 293Lemme explain. I went ! at the cover and images; a friend loves pigeons and another draws many many horses. I also liked the Chicago references.I went ? at the chaos and the cynical chapters. Im a teen, but I couldnt connect to Amelia.At the end, I went ! cuz the book followed the ~400 pg of darkness with... a 20 page happy ending.! + ? + ! = !?!, so !?! sums up my thoughts of the book.

This is one of those books that I picked up from the library on a whim merely because I've gotten to that desperate, "I haven't read a good book in a while" kind of a place and I'm just sort of grasping at straws. For better or worse, "The Great Perhaps" definitely filled that void but it did little more. It's the story of a somewhat dysfunctional (but mostly normal) family in Chicago - two parents, both of whom are scientists and two daughters who are, of course, polar opposites yet dealing

This was a little disappointing. I really like his previous short story collection, and the novel before that, the Boy Detective Fails. This book had moments of brilliance to be sure, but overall, it's generally mediocre. The novel is at its best when Meno takes his time with what he's writing, but the scope of the book is so big that it seems he couldn't do so often enough.

Don't be fooled by the pastel cover or the relatively short length. This is not a light story. It reminds me a bit of some of Michael Chabon's works, but without the grace or the wisdom. It's all very metaphorical and artsy-fartsy. It's not authentic, and it doesn't resonate, at least with me. Also, I know some of you don't like alternating points of view or time frames, and this has both of those in spades. It also includes casual marijuana use and underage sex.Now, if my objections don't

I imagine those people who don't like this book, or maybe don't like Joe Meno, aren't fans of Wes Anderson either. I suppose that isn't exactly fair to Meno. He doesn't dance around in a quirky but very real alternate reality. His characters are kind of quirky, one is afraid of clouds; one is trying to erase himself by speaking one fewer word a day. But he doesn't use his quirky characters for a mad-cap, laugh-a-minute riot. His quirks instead somehow heighten the flaws and the sadness in them.