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322 s. 23 cm |
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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 |
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Otrohet
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Äktenskapsbrott
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Triangeldramer
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Älskarinnor
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Döttrar
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Konstnärer
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Balettdansare
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Married people -- Fiction
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Sculptors -- Fiction
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Ballet dancers -- Fiction
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Daughters -- Fiction
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Adultery -- Fiction
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Families -- Fiction
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Förenta staterna -- New York
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New York (State) -- Fiction
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Romaner
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813
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He.01
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ISBN/ISSN |
9781780747637 |
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