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Riverhead
April 2014
On Sale: March 25, 2014
Featuring: Jules Jacobson; Ethan; Jonah
560 pages
ISBN: 1594632340
EAN: 9781594632341
Kindle: B008U4HH54
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Hardcover (April 2013)
Contemporary Women's Fiction
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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