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The Kept Man

di Jami Attenberg

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Now in paperback, from the author of the bestselling The Middlesteins: the novel that's "unabashedly emotional, refreshingly devoid of New York City cynicism, and tenderly funny?" (People). Jarvis Miller's artist husband has been in a coma for six years. And so, Jarvis has spent these years suspended between hope and grief, paralyzed with longing for a life and a marriage that are slipping away. But then, unexpectedly, Jarvis makes her first new friends in years when she meets the Kept Man Club: three men whose lifestyles are funded by their successful wives, who gather once a week on laundry day. With their help, she reawakens to the city beyond her Brooklyn apartment, past the pitying eyes of her husband's art dealer and his irresponsible best friend as her future begins to take on the irresistible tingles of possibility for the first time in almost a decade. When a shocking discovery casts a different light on her idealized marriage, she's propelled even further down a path that she would never have dared to imagine just months before. Tender, bold, and unabashed, The Kept Man is a compulsively readable novel about love and loss from one of our most dynamic new storytellers.… (altro)
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Sechs Jahre schon liegt Martin im Koma. Sechs lange Jahre steht auch das Leben seiner Frau Jarvis still. Zwischen dem New Yorker Loft und dem Pflegeheim pendelt sie, darüber hinaus hat sie eigentlich kein Leben mehr, keine Bekanntschaften, die sie pflegt, keine Freundschaften. Als sie dank einer defekten Waschmaschine in einem Waschsalon auf Tony, Mal und Scott trifft, wird plötzlich der Lebensmut wieder in Jarvis geweckt. Sie findet die drei Haus- und Ehemänner spontan sympathisch und fiebert jedem Treffen entgegen. Langsam hinterfragt sie ihr gegenwärtiges Lebenskonstrukt und als sie beginnt sich um Martins künstlerische Hinterlassenschaften zu kümmern, lernt sie zu ihrem Leidwesen auch eine Seite ihres Ehemanns kennen, die ihr bis dato nicht bekannt war. Sie muss sich entscheiden: weitermachen wie bisher oder eine lebenswichtige Entscheidung treffen.

Jami Attenbergs Roman „Ehemänner“ ist bereits vor zehn Jahren erschienen, wurde jedoch jetzt erst in deutscher Übersetzung aufgelegt. Meiner Meinung nach merkt man, dass dies ihr erster Roman nach der Veröffentlichung von Kurzgeschichten war, ihr späterer Durchbruch und Erfolgsroman „The Middlesteins“ ist schon deutlich ausgereifter und im Humor subtiler. Nichtsdestotrotz erkennt man schon in diesem Roman das Potenzial der Autorin.

Dies zeigt sich vor allem in der Figurenzeichnung. Jarvis ist ein sehr eigenwilliger Charakter, der jedoch nichtsdestotrotz authentisch und lebendig wirkt. Ihre Situation ist fern von alltäglich, aber die grundsätzliche Frage, ob man in seinem Leben gefangen ist und sich ob der eigenen Passivität dem Schicksal hingibt oder den Mut besitzt, aktiv zu werden und auszubrechen, ist wiederum eine sehr weit verbreitete Problematik, der sich viele Menschen gegenübersehen. Eine kleine Begegnung, zufällig, ungeplant und kurz, bringt schließlich den Stein ins Rollen und das sorgsam aufgebaute Lebensgerüst ins Wanken. Dass dies schmerzlich sein kann, muss auch Jarvis erfahren. Jami Attenberg erspart ihrer Protagonistin nichts, der Ausbruch geht nicht ohne Leiden und Schrammen vonstatten – aber so ist das Leben und das hat die Autorin eingefangen.

Einmal mehr konnte sie mich Jami Attenberg jedoch vor allem mit der Atmosphäre überzeugen, die sie in ihrem Roman schafft. Man taucht in New York bzw. Williamsburg ein, spürt den Puls der Stadt, die jüdische und von Künstlern geprägte Umgebung, die ihren ganz eigenen Rhythmus lebt. Überhaupt hat sie für mein Empfinden speziell die kleine und recht überschaubare Artistenszene sehr glaubwürdig dargestellt: der Neid und Egoismus, mit dem die Karrieren verfolgt werden; Freundschaften und Beziehungen, die dem Erfolg untergeordnet werden. Auf der anderen Seite aber auch die noch erfolglosen Tingler wie die Ehemänner aus dem Waschsalon, die sich dank des Einkommens der Partnerinnen oder kleinerer Jobs über Wasser halten, bis vielleicht irgendwann der Durchbruch kommt – oder auch nicht. Das alles lebt von Jami Attenbergs Ausdruckstalent, bemerkenswert wie sie immer wieder kuriose Vergleiche und treffende Formulierungen findet, um die Dinge auf den Punkt zu bringen.

Auch wenn für mich das Ende nicht ganz überzeugend ist, ein lesenswerter Roman über eine Frau am Scheideweg ihres Lebens. ( )
  miss.mesmerized | Nov 21, 2017 |
I admire Attenberg’s writing style. It is detailed but not overly so, more spare than spacious. She built a world for Jarvis that was at first insulated, like her marriage, her apartment, her friendships, then it expanded. Her world enlarged when met the men at the laundromat, her neighbor, even the neighborhood was expanding symbolically along with her. I didn’t care for the Alice characterization, she felt rather one dimensional and then turned out to be a bit of a nemesis to Jarvis, a little too conveniently.

While the ending was predictable it was quickly dealt with.
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  LynneMF | Aug 20, 2017 |
From my librarytart blog http://librarytart.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/an-edgy-chronicle-of-loneliness/

Attenberg, Jami ~ The Kept Man

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Former drug-guzzling, New Yorker party girl, Jarvis Miller, exists in an endless void of her husband lying in a coma for the past six years. The book’s title refers to her husband and three ‘trophy husbands’ she meets in a laundromat and leans on to re-start her life.

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The Kept Man has been the most interesting read relating to critical opinion so far. Reviews have ranged from “airless dirge” to “deftly written and very engaging” and I’m glad I didn’t do any research until I’d made up my own mind.

I’m firmly in the camp of the impressed. From the quirky-but-readable typeface to recognising and depicting the impact of depression, loneliness and confusion causing Jarvis to lash out and unintentionally add to her burden, Attenberg has done an empathetic and insightful job of putting the reader in Jarvis’s shoes. She also parallels cleverly the emptiness of Jarvis’s hedonistic single days with her not-alive-not-dead married life.

Some events, such as Jarvis meeting three well-to-do men washing their laundry in public, are a creative stretch according to some reviews, but ‘her’ men use laundry day to bond and escape their kept lives, in the same way that Jarvis uses the Tuesday routine as a diversion from her existence.

I will be hunting down her book of short stories.

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  mscrankypants | Nov 29, 2008 |
Thank goodness one of our library volunteers recommended this book to me; otherwise, I wouldn't have picked it up. There's just something so engrossing about this book, and its close look at the mundane aspects of everyday life -- love, relationships, friendships, work -- and the impact of events larger than we can ever imagine.

Do pick it up -- it's worth it! ( )
  stephaniechase | Jun 17, 2008 |
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Now in paperback, from the author of the bestselling The Middlesteins: the novel that's "unabashedly emotional, refreshingly devoid of New York City cynicism, and tenderly funny?" (People). Jarvis Miller's artist husband has been in a coma for six years. And so, Jarvis has spent these years suspended between hope and grief, paralyzed with longing for a life and a marriage that are slipping away. But then, unexpectedly, Jarvis makes her first new friends in years when she meets the Kept Man Club: three men whose lifestyles are funded by their successful wives, who gather once a week on laundry day. With their help, she reawakens to the city beyond her Brooklyn apartment, past the pitying eyes of her husband's art dealer and his irresponsible best friend as her future begins to take on the irresistible tingles of possibility for the first time in almost a decade. When a shocking discovery casts a different light on her idealized marriage, she's propelled even further down a path that she would never have dared to imagine just months before. Tender, bold, and unabashed, The Kept Man is a compulsively readable novel about love and loss from one of our most dynamic new storytellers.

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