Among the Ten Thousand Things (eBook, ePUB)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Random House Publishing Group (Pierpont, Julia) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
For fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling first novel, a portrait of an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and a startlingly original story of love and time lost. Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist, charming and vain, who doesn´t mean to plunge his family into crisis. His wife, Deb, gladly left behind a difficult career as a dancer to raise the two children she adores. In the ensuing years, she has mostly avoided coming face-to-face with the weaknesses of the man she married. But then an anonymously sent package arrives in the mail: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling Jack´s secret life. The package is addressed to Deb, but it´s delivered into the wrong hands: her children´s. With this vertiginous opening begins a debut that is by turns funny, wise, and indescribably moving. As the Shanleys spin apart into separate orbits, leaving New York in an attempt to regain their bearings, fifteen-year-old Simon feels the allure of adult freedoms for the first time, while eleven-year-old Kay wanders precariously into a grown-up world she can´t possibly understand. Writing with extraordinary precision, humor, and beauty, Julia Pierpont has crafted a timeless, hugely enjoyable novel about the bonds of family lifetheir brittleness, and their resilience. Praise for Among the Ten Thousand Things ´;A luscious, smart summer novel . . . about a family blown apart and yet still painfully tethered together, written by a blazingly talented young author whose prose is so assured and whose observations are so precise and deeply felt that it´s almost an insult to bring up her age.´Helen Schulman, The New York Times Book Review ´;[An] excellent, insightful first novel . . . a gripping portrait of the disintegration of the Shanley family . . . Pierpont brings this family of four to life in sharply observed detail. . . . An acute observer of social comedy, Ms. Pierpont has a keen eye for the absurd.´Moira Hodgson, The Wall Street Journal ´;Pierpont´s language is heart-stopping. . . . Technically, of course, this is a domestic drama. But between Pierpont´s literary finesse and her captivating characters, it reads like a page-turner. [Grade:] A´Entertainment Weekly ´;Tender, delicately perceptive . . . Pierpont´s voice is wry and confident, and she is a fine anthropologist of New York life.´The Washington Post ´;Bracing . . . Pierpont´s killer ending reveals the long reach of the affair´s consequences (sorry, no plot spoilers). Consider this a twisty, gripping storythat packs an emotional wallop.´O: The Oprah Magazine ´;Adebut so honest and mature that it will resonate with even the most action-hungry readersperhaps against reason. Her story is the one we´ll be talking about this summer, and well beyond.´Meredith Turits, Vanity Fair ´;Fans of [Virginia] Woolf´s insight into the human consciousness . . . will savor Pierpont´s acute observation of a family in crisis, her deft pacing and deeply human characterization of each member of the family.´The Huffington Post ´;Pierpont orchestrates the narrative with verve, telling her story from the perspective of each family member. There are moments of wry hilarity, and of wisdom.´BBCFrom the Hardcover edition.
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