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Title Among the ten thousand things / Julia Pierpont
Imprint London : Oneworld, 2015

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Descript 322 s. 23 cm
Note For fans of Jenny Offill, Jonathan Franzen, A.M. Homes, and Lorrie Moore, Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling first novel. 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, humour, and beauty, Julia Pierpont has crafted a timeless, hugely enjoyable novel about the bonds of family life their brittleness, and their resilience
Subject Otrohet
Äktenskapsbrott
Triangeldramer
Älskarinnor
Döttrar
Konstnärer
Balettdansare
Married people -- Fiction
Sculptors -- Fiction
Ballet dancers -- Fiction
Daughters -- Fiction
Adultery -- Fiction
Families -- Fiction
Förenta staterna -- New York
New York (State) -- Fiction
Romaner
Classmark 813
He.01
ISBN/ISSN 9781780747637
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