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In hypnotic and digressive prose, Tillman's narrator looks at her life through a fractured lens while ruminating on her many and varied preoccupations: chair design, the Manson family, the Zulu alphabet, the death of a pet, family trauma, loneliness - and above all, skin and the meaning of 'sensitivity' in contemporary society. Attempting to tell the story of her life, her reveries and reminiscences are constantly interrupted by the presence of her fellow residents, each with their own obsessions and neuroses. In this masterful novel, now available in the UK for the first time, Lynne Tillman creates a microcosm of American life. American Genius, A Comedy reinvents the modernist novel for our distracted era - it is the tale of a consciousness that is at once expansive and exacting and utterly compelling.

Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. The author of fifteen books across fiction and non-fiction, her work has been a twice finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Tillman is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writing Fellowship. Tillman is Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at The University of Albany and teaches at the School of Visual Arts' Art Criticism and Writing MFA Program in New York.