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Do the Windows Open?
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Do the Windows Open? Paperback - 1998

by Hecht, Julie

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"Do the Windows Open?" is a series of hilarious linked tales documenting the mania of the modern day in devastating detail. The beguiling and alienated narrator has set herself the never-ending goal of photographing a world-renowned reproductive surgeon, Walden Pond, the ponds of Nantucket, and all the houses Anne Sexton ever lived in. What emerges is a unique sensibility under siege.

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Penguin Books, 1998-02-01. paperback. Used: Good.
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  • Title Do the Windows Open?
  • Author Hecht, Julie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used: Good
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 1998-02-01
  • Features Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0140271457
  • ISBN 9780140271454 / 0140271457
  • Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.77 x 5.12 x 0.62 in (19.74 x 13.00 x 1.57 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Short stories, Short stories, American
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96033139
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

Do the Windows Open? is a series of hilarious linked tales documenting the mania of the modern day in devastating detail-tales that have had readers of The New Yorker laughing out loud for years.

The beguiling and alienated narrator-who finds nearly everything interesting and almost nothing clear-has set herself the never-ending goal of photographing a world-renowned reproductive surgeon, Walden Pond, the ponds of Nantucket, and all the houses Anne Sexton ever lived in.

On the way, she searches for organically grown vegetables, windows that open, and an endodontist who acts like a normal person. She sometimes compares herself unfavorably to Jacqueline Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, and Princess Diana.

What emerges is a unique sensibility under siege. This is a remarkably original literary performance, one that speaks to anyone looking for the refuge laughter offers from life in an absurd world.

From the publisher

Julie Hecht's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Harper's. She lives in East Hampton, New York in the winter and Massachusetts in the summer. She has been writing stories since she was eight years old.

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Citations

  • New York Times, 02/08/1998, Page 28

About the author

Julie Hecht's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Harper's. She lives in East Hampton, New York in the winter and Massachusetts in the summer. She has been writing stories since she was eight years old.