The Interestings
Autor Meg Wolitzeren Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 2014
Găsim în paginile acestui roman o melancolie luminoasă, specifică momentului în care realizăm că entuziasmul de la cincisprezece ani nu este întotdeauna un combustibil suficient pentru o viață întreagă. The Interestings începe în vara anului 1974, sub umbra demisiei lui Nixon, într-un lagăr de vară dedicat artelor, unde șase tineri își unesc destinele sub un nume ambițios. Meg Wolitzer construiește o frescă socială vastă, urmărind cum timpul, banii și hazardul transformă această „gașcă” de idealiști în adulți care trebuie să negocieze cu propriile limitări. Reținem finețea cu care autoarea analizează invidia dintre prieteni — acel sentiment inavuabil care apare atunci când talentul unuia se transformă în succes global, în timp ce alții eșuează în profesii pragmatice.
Forța narativă a lui Jonathan Franzen din „Freedom” combinată cu sensibilitatea lui Jeffrey Eugenides din The Marriage Plot se regăsesc aici, însă Meg Wolitzer aduce un glas propriu, mai intim și mai atent la nuanțele vieții domestice. Dacă în The Wife autoarea explora sacrificiul din spatele geniului masculin, iar în The Ten-Year Nap analiza compromisurile maternității, în The Interestings ea extinde această investigație asupra întregii traiectorii a existenței umane. Este un roman despre New York-ul care se schimbă odată cu personajele sale, despre cum clasa socială dictează adesea cine are luxul de a rămâne „interesant” și despre cum prietenia supraviețuiește, paradoxal, tocmai prin acceptarea inegalității.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0099584093
Pagini: 468
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Random House
Colecția Vintage
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Recomandăm această carte celor care caută o explorare profundă a prieteniei de durată și a modului în care ambiția se transformă odată cu vârsta. Este o lectură esențială pentru oricine s-a întrebat vreodată ce se întâmplă cu „copilul minune” după ce luminile scenei se sting. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă onestă asupra succesului și a liniștii care vine din acceptarea unei vieți obișnuite, totul într-un stil literar impecabil.
Despre autor
Meg Wolitzer este o romancieră americană de prestigiu, recunoscută pentru capacitatea sa de a diseca dinamica relațiilor moderne și structurile sociale complexe. Născută în 1959, ea a publicat titluri de succes precum The Wife și The Female Persuasion, fiind apreciată pentru umorul fin și observația psihologică acută. Profesor în cadrul programului MFA de la Stony Brook Southampton, Wolitzer este adesea comparată cu marii realiști americani contemporani, reușind să echilibreze temele politice și sociale cu o dimensiune umană profundă, accesibilă oricărui tip de cititor.
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"A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's."—Entertainment Weekly (A)
"The big questions asked by The Interestings are about what happened to the world (when, Jules wonders, did 'analyst' stop denoting Freud and start referring to finance?) and what happened to all that budding teenage talent. Might every privileged schoolchild have a bright future in dance or theater or glass blowing? Ms. Wolitzer hasn’t got the answers, but she does have her characters mannerisms and attitudes down cold."—The New York Times
"I don't want to insult Meg Wolitzer by calling her sprawling, engrossing new novel, The Interestings, her most ambitious, because throughout her 30-year career of turning out well-observed, often very funny books at a steady pace, I have no doubt she has always been ambitious. . . . But "The Interestings" is exactly the kind of book that literary sorts who talk about ambitious works . . . are talking about. . . . Wolitzer is almost crushingly insightful; she doesn't just mine the contemporary mind, she seems to invade it."—San Francisco Chronicle
"A sprawling, marvelously inventive novel . . . ambitious and enormously entertaining."—The Washington Post
"A supremely engrossing, deeply knowing, genius-level enterprise . . . The novel is thick and thickly populated. And yet Wolitzer is brilliant at keeping the reader close by her side as she takes her story back and forth across time, in and out of multiple lives, and into the tangle of countless continuing, sometimes compromising, conversations."—Chicago Tribune
“Masterful, sweeping . . . Her clear gaze captures the intricacies of lasting friendship, enduring love, marital sacrifice, bitter squabbles, family secrets, parental angst and deep loss. Though the story hops back and forth in time, it is rarely confusing, frequently funny and always engaging. . . . A story that feels real and true and more than fulfills the promise of the title. It is interesting, yes, but also moving, compelling, fascinating, and rewarding.”—Miami Herald
“Wolitzer has produced a novel that is big by at least a couple of clear measures—it’s nearly 500 pages long, and it covers a lot of time and drama in the lives of a small circle of friends. . . . It’s a small world in which these characters want to live large, and Wolitzer is wonderful at conveying that through the point of view of someone who doesn’t even see it, all the while shading in the stuff that lives, big and small, are made of.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“It’s a ritual of childhood—that solemn vow never to lose touch, no matter what. And for six artsy teenagers whose lives unfold in Wolitzer’s big-hearted, ambitious new novel, the vow holds for almost four decades.”—People
"Readers may also enjoy comparing The Interestings with Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children . . . In probing the unpredictable relationship between early promise and success and the more dependable one between self-acceptance and happiness, Wolitzer's novel is not just a big book but a shrewd one."—Christian Science Monitor
"[The Interestings] soars, primarily because Wolitzer insists on taking our teenage selves seriously and, rather than coldly satirizing them, comes at them with warm humor and adult wisdom."—Elle
"In Meg Wolitzer's lovely, wise The Interestings, Julie Jacobson begins the summer of '74 as an outsider at arts camp until she is accepted into a clique of teenagers with whom she forms a lifelong bond. Through well-tuned drama and compassionate humor, Wolitzer chronicles the living organism that is friendship, and arcs it over the cours of more than thirty years."—O, the Oprah Magazine
"Wonderful."—Vanity Fair
"Juicy, perceptive and vividly written."—NPR.org
"A sprawling, ambitious and often wistful novel."—USA Today
"What becomes a legend most? or rather, who? Those with innate ability? Those blessed with enough beauty or money to indulge any creative whim? Or just those who want it the most? In The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer's quarry is ambition: what it means to have it, how to use it, how it's lost."—Time
"Best-selling novelist Meg Wolitzer specializes in witty, knowing takes on contemporary marriage, divorce, and relationships. Her ninth novel, The Interestings, is smart, nuanced, and fun to read, in part because of the effervescent evocation of New York City from Watergate to today, in part because of the idiosyncratic authenticity of her characters."—The Daily Beast
"You’ll want to be friends with these characters long after you put down the book.”—Marie Claire
"A page-turner."—Cosmopolitan
“[A] big, juicy novel . . . Wolitzer’s finger is unerringly on the pulse of our social culture."—Readers Digest
"Meg Wolitzer kicks off her buzzy tenth novel in 1974 at a summer camp for artsy kids, where a tight-knit group of campers is plotting world domination. The result is a Franzen-like treatise on talent, fate, friendship, and the limits of all three."—V Magazine
“Breathtaking in its scope and a remarkably fun page-turner . . . “[Wolitzer's] social commentary on art, money and fame should have her compared to Tom Wolfe, but her work is much larger than that.”—Matchbook
“[The Interestings is] so approachable one can almost miss the excellence and precision of its prose. . . . Ultimately The Interestings is absorbing and immensely likeable.”—Nylon
"Like Virginia Woolf in The Waves, Meg Wolitzer gives us the full picture here, charting her characters' lives from the self-dramatizing of adolescence, through the resignation of middle age, to the attainment of a wisdom that holds all the intensities of life in a single, sustained chord, much like this book itself. The wit, intelligence, and deep feeling of Wolitzer's writing are extraordinary and The Interestings brings her achievement, already so steadfast and remarkable, to an even higher level."—Jeffrey Eugenides
"Wolitzer follows a group of friends from adolescence at an artsy summer camp in 1974 through adulthood and into late-middle age as their lives alternately intersect, diverge and reconnect. . . . Ambitious and involving, capturing the zeitgeist of the liberal intelligentsia of the era."—Kirkus (starred)