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A Personal Matter is the story of Bird, a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child.

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A Personal Matter is the story of Bird, a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child.

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"Oe Writes like a new American realist.... His prose is as direct and frank as an ice pick."
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"Oe's themes of abnormality, sexuality, and marginality are outside the tradition of Japanese equipoise... His work has a gritty, grotesque quality, which makes him seem more akin to Mailer, Grass, or Roth than to many Japanese novelist."

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780802150615
  • Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Publication date: 1/28/1994
  • Edition description: Reissue
  • Pages: 214
  • Sales rank: 273,739
  • Lexile: 980L (what's this?)
  • Series: Oe, Kenzaburo
  • Product dimensions: 5.38 (w) x 8.12 (h) x 0.46 (d)

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  • Posted January 31, 2010

    How love trumps terror

    Oe writes honestly of a sometimes pathetic, precarious and terrifying route to an act of love. The protagonist's race to act in the end is a dramatic scene in a category all its own.

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