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April 2013
On Sale: April 9, 2013
480 pages
ISBN: 1594488398
EAN: 9781594488399
Kindle: B008U4HH54
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Fiction Family Life
From New York Times–bestselling author Meg
Wolitzer comes a new novel that has been called
“Franzen-like” (V Magazine), “wonderful” (Vanity
Fair), and a “page-turner” (Cosmopolitan).
Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Marriage Plot says:
“The wit, intelligence, and deep feeling of Wolitzer's
writing are extraordinary and The Interestings brings her
achievement, already so steadfast and remarkable, to an even
higher level.”
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.
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