"Remarkable . . . With this book Wolitzer] has surpassed
herself."--"The New York Times Book Review"
"A victory . . . "The Interestings "secures Wolitzer's place among
the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as
literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her
work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction.
It's everyone's."--"Entertainment Weekly "(A)
The "New York Times"-bestselling novel by Meg Wolitzer that has
been called "genius" ("The Chicago Tribune"), "wonderful" ("Vanity
Fair"), "ambitious" ("San Francisco Chronicle"), and a
"page-turner" ("Cosmopolitan"), which "The New York Times Book
Review "says is "among the ranks of books like Jonathan Franzen's
"Freedom" and Jeffrey Eugenides "The Marriage Plot.""
The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for
the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains
powerful, but so much else has changed. In "The Interestings,"
Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through
middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction
diverge.
The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not
always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not
everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in
adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually
resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her
friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and
becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules's now-married best
friends, become shockingly successful--true to their initial
artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams
to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but
also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their
talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken.
Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who
come together and apart in a changing New York City, "The
Interestings" explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy;
the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can
shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a
life.
General
Imprint: |
Riverhead Books,U.S.
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2014 |
First published: |
March 2014 |
Authors: |
Meg Wolitzer
|
Dimensions: |
204 x 130 x 32mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
538 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-59463-234-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
1-59463-234-0 |
Barcode: |
9781594632341 |
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