| Details | | Publication Date: | 1999-12-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 95 pages | | Height: | 13.5 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 5.6 oz |
Publisher's Note Buzzi applies his unique sensibility to topics as disparate as his German mother, the history of toothpicks, and a famous chef so portly that it takes two people to tie his apron behind him. His evocative observations possess a Zen-like appreciation for the beauty of the ordinary and the humor in the everyday.
Industry Reviews "Breznik's treatment of this domestic material, a staple in the literature of "childhood trauma," is distinguished by her narrator's unspoken battle to retain a clinical distance from the events of her past....But healing is only hinted at in the narrative, and Breznik applies warmth in her novel like a gauze bandage: winding carefully, one layer at a time." Anastas
"[D]espite a brilliant layering of detail and a few unvarnished psychological insights, NIGHT DUTY remains a shapeless, uncollected book. Breznik writes with restraint and occasional elegance...[but] as a collection of episodic memories, the novel has little obvious structure to keep details from drifting apart in a scattered intensity. Yet that very fact illustrates how painful these memories must be..." Ward
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