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The Unprofessionals: A Novel

Autor Julie Hecht
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 aug 2008
There is no American writer alive who is funnier, more inquisitive, or more surprising than Julie Hecht. The Unprofessionals, her first novel, whose narrator also told the stories in the author's bestselling collection Do the Windows Open?, is a triumph of tragicomedy. The book follows the odd friendship between the narrator -- a photographer in her late forties -- and a precocious raconteur, identified only as The Boy, whom she has known since his childhood. As the narrator and the young man regale each other with tales of the way Americans live now, she is also telling the story of his path to heroin addiction and his many attempts to recover.

The Unprofessionals is a masterpiece of comic despair, illuminating our bewildering century, and a hilarious and sad story of two outsiders who see the world with painful clarity -- and as a whole, a novel of unexampled originality.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781416564270
ISBN-10: 1416564276
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 140 x 214 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster

Recenzii

"Julie Hecht sees the horribleness and beauty of our everyday lives better than anyone else, and her humor is deadpan, wild, and sibylline. The Unprofessionals kept me reading avidly right to its last word." -- Ian Frazier
"An authentic, witty, and uncustomary voice -- a sharp-eyed and funny revelation of privilege and pain." -- Alice Munro
"Reminiscent of the gossamer mind-spinning, and lethal detonation, of 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish.'...Many beautifully contoured reflections...a narrator endowed with every conceivable sensitivity and a passionate spirit." -- The New York Times Book Review

Descriere

Hecht's first novel revisits the batty, obsessive narrator of her short-story collection "Do the Windows Open?" and chronicles the strange friendship between a photographer in her late 40s and a young man whom she has known since his childhood.

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