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Knopf
September 2006
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Featuring: Marina Thwaite; Danielle; Julius
448 pages
ISBN: 030726419X
EAN: 9780307264190
Hardcover
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From a writer "of near-miraculous perfection" (The New
York Times Book Review) and "a literary intelligence far
surpassing most other writers of her generation" (San
Francisco Chronicle), THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN is a
dazzling, masterful novel about the intersections in the
lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties,
making their way--and not--in New York City.
There is beautiful, sophisticated Marina Thwaite--an
"It" girl finishing her first book; the daughter of Murray
Thwaite, celebrated intellectual and journalist--and her two
closest friends from Brown, Danielle, a quietly appealing
television producer, and Julius, a cash-strapped freelance
critic. The delicious complications that arise among them
become dangerous when Murray's nephew, Frederick "Bootie"
Tubb, an idealistic college dropout determined to make his
mark, comes to town. As the skies darken, it is Bootie's
unexpected decisions--and their stunning, heartbreaking
outcome--that will change each of their lives
forever.
A richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and
fortune--of innocence and experience, seduction and
self-invention; of ambition, including literary ambition; of
glamour, disaster, and promise--THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN
is a tour de force that brings to life a city, a
generation, and the way we live in this moment.
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