The Interestings
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:24th Apr '14
Should be back in stock very soon
A heartbreaking, panoramic tragicomedy and a big American novel from bestseller Meg Wolitzer
Discover the generation-defining American novel from the author of The Wife
Whatever became of the most talented people you once knew?
On a warm summer night in 1974, six teenagers play at being cool.
On a warm night in 1974, six teenagers meet at Spirit-in-the-Woods summer camp. They smoke, drink, talk and decide that they are, and will remain, the Interestings.
Decades later, their lives have not unfolded equally. Jules has traded acting dreams for a more practical adulthood. Ethan’s animated creation has made him famous and wealthy. Ash, Jonah, Cathy and Goodman carry their own gifts, secrets, disappearances and losses. As chance and envy reshape the group, the intensity of adolescence gives way to the harder question of what friendship can survive.
Generous and psychologically acute, The Interestings is an American coming-of-age novel like no other; exploring the intricacies of creativity, money and ambition when they come into contact with lifelong friendship.
For readers looking for book club fiction with sweep and emotional intelligence, Meg Wolitzer follows the people we once wanted to become and the lives we actually make.
‘A truly great novel about friendship, and how it deepens and changes over the years’ David Sedaris, author of Me Talk Pretty One Day
This is a wonderful book. Intelligent and subtle, it is exquisitely written with enormous warmth and depth of emotion… But what makes The Interestings exceptional is the precision and elegance of Wolitzer’s writing… This should be the novel to make Wolitzer a household name here too -- Kate Mosse * The Times *
Wolitzer is a writer of prodigious energy and detail, with the knack for comic-satirical perceptions of character and culture -- Rachel Cusk * Guardian *
A complex, cleverly interwoven analysis of the moment when the lives of six friends begin to unravel’ -- Viv Groskop * Observer *
Wolitzer has a knack for homing in on the kind of pretension-puncturing details that can sum up a minor character in a single sentence -- Hepzibah Anderson * Daily Mail *
Meg Wolitzer writes fluently about the American Dream and whether you should surrender your goals to reality in this wonderful novel * Stylist *
I love Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings because it’s sprawling and beautifully written and it opens at a summer camp. It’s a truly great novel about friendship, and how it deepens and changes over the years -- David Sedaris * Conde Nast Traveller *
A breakout book -- Allison Pearson
If you enjoy the introspective aspects of Virginia Woolf or the American modernity of Jennifer Egan, you’ll love this sweeping, tragicomic novel of ideas * Psychologies *
One of those generation-defining America novels that tackles big historical issues * Marie Claire *
Full of wit * Emerald Street *
ISBN: 9780099584094
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 30mm
Weight: 306g
480 pages