By Meg Wolitzer
"A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's position top-of-the-line novelists of her iteration. . . . She's each piece as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. however the very human moments in her paintings hit you more durable than the massive principles. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's."—Entertainment Weekly (A)
From New York Times–bestselling writer Meg Wolitzer comes a brand new novel that has been known as “Franzen-like” (V Magazine), “wonderful” (Vanity Fair), and a “page-turner” (Cosmopolitan). Jeffrey Eugenides, writer of The Marriage Plot says: “The wit, intelligence, and deep feeling of Wolitzer's writing are notable and The Interestings brings her fulfillment, already so steadfast and memorable, to a fair greater level.”
The summer season that Nixon resigns, six little ones at a summer season camp for the humanities develop into inseparable. a long time later the bond is still strong, yet loads else has replaced. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows those characters from the peak of teenage via heart age, as their skills, fortunes, and levels of pride diverge.
the type of creativity that's rewarded at age fifteen isn't constantly adequate to propel somebody via lifestyles at age thirty; now not every body can maintain, in maturity, what appeared so targeted in formative years. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comedian actress, finally resigns herself to a more effective profession and way of life. Her buddy Jonah, a proficient musician, stops taking part in the guitar and turns into an engineer. yet Ethan and Ash, Jules’s now-married most sensible buddies, develop into shockingly successful—true to their preliminary creative desires, with the wealth and entry that permit these desires to maintain increasing. The friendships undergo or even prosper, but in addition underscore the variations of their fates, in what their abilities became and the shapes their lives have taken.
vast in scope, formidable, and populated by way of complicated characters who come jointly and aside in a altering big apple urban, The Interestings explores the which means of expertise; the character of envy; the jobs of sophistication, artwork, cash, and gear; and the way it all can shift and tilt precipitously over the process a friendship and a existence.
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Him pottering about the apartment, always beautifully dressed, chatting or asking me questions. Arranging the dinner table, playing records, casually picking up books from the shelves and asking me questions, trying out his recently acquired knowledge. William rarely read himself, and certainly never fiction, but he was curious about my ideas on certain texts and liked to know the general plot of the books scattered around the living room. Once or twice he had startled me when out by contributing one of my opinions as his own.