Waiting on a Friend
Autor Natalie Adleren Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 mai 2026
So, when her best friend Mark dies, she assumes she'll see him again. There's no way Mark wouldn't give her a chance to say goodbye, would he? But to her disappointment - and increasingly, her concern - Mark doesn't appear.
Renata has other problems, too. A mysterious, police-like force has begun ridding their East Village neighbourhood of anything abnormal or inexplicable. At first, she's sure they're scam artists, but it becomes clear they're actually trapping ghosts. With her band of lovably eccentric pals and lovers, Renata is determined to fight back against the erasure of her friends' memories and the sanitizing of her beloved New York.
Both heartbreaking and healing, tragic and triumphant, Waiting on a Friend is a magical retelling of queer history and a celebration of youth and camaraderie. With pathos and humour, empathy and an edge, Natalie Adler freshly reimagines the past for a new generation, reclaiming the spirit of resistance and determination that would become one of the era's defining legacies.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781529439052
ISBN-10: 1529439051
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: N/A
Dimensiuni: 138 x 222 mm
Editura: Quercus Books
Colecția riverrun
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1529439051
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: N/A
Dimensiuni: 138 x 222 mm
Editura: Quercus Books
Colecția riverrun
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Waiting on a Friend is a fun, sexy, heartbreaking, inventive whirl of a novel. Renata has always seen ghosts, and when her best friend Mark dies, she wants nothing more than to see him again. This story is a beautiful study of friendship, of how loss unmoors us, and how if we keep turning towards love, anything is possible.
A charming and innovative debut, Waiting on a Friend is fresh and refreshing, both heartbreaking and uplifting. Such a pleasure to read. Natalie Adler has given us a gem
A ghost story, a mystery, an ode to the New York City of the 1980s, a requiem for the early victims of AIDS, a celebration of queer friendship . . . This book pulses with life and exuberance amid death and loss. A riveting debut by a writer of tremendous compassion and insight
Waiting on a Friend is a breathtaking novel: candid, wickedly funny, deeply generous, and kind. Above all else it is a kind book. The plotting is intricate. The characters, moving and well-drawn. I absolutely loved it and could not stop reading
I've read this gorgeous and heartbreaking novel a few times now (not to brag) and each time I'm completely sucked in and devastated and awash in a feeling of somebody gets it! about the moment of queer life in NYC that was ending right as I showed up in the late '80s. . . . Adler gets the feeling of the time more right than almost any historical fiction I've read about the early-middle height of AIDS in NYC
Waiting on a Friend sets a personal story of loss within the backdrop of a city still grieving those lost to AIDS. The effect is a powerful, moving story that speaks to the themes of friendship, found families, and acceptance. With resonant character work and hauntingly beautiful care for those remaining and gone, this book will linger long after the last page
By turns biting and generous, funny and devastating, Waiting on a Friend evokes friendship in all its complexity-its resentments, tender obsessions, marvelous intimacies, and supernatural power
Natalie Adler is bringing one incarnation of the AIDS experience into the present where it all belongs. Someone is listening
Waiting on a Friend is a wildly inventive and moving novel that walks a tightrope of emotion with grace and humour. It's both a portrait of a time and place-New York City in the early 1980s-and a testament to the challenge of carrying on in the face of devastating loss. Natalie Adler has written an astonishingly brilliant debut.
A charming and innovative debut, Waiting on a Friend is fresh and refreshing, both heartbreaking and uplifting. Such a pleasure to read. Natalie Adler has given us a gem
A ghost story, a mystery, an ode to the New York City of the 1980s, a requiem for the early victims of AIDS, a celebration of queer friendship . . . This book pulses with life and exuberance amid death and loss. A riveting debut by a writer of tremendous compassion and insight
Waiting on a Friend is a breathtaking novel: candid, wickedly funny, deeply generous, and kind. Above all else it is a kind book. The plotting is intricate. The characters, moving and well-drawn. I absolutely loved it and could not stop reading
I've read this gorgeous and heartbreaking novel a few times now (not to brag) and each time I'm completely sucked in and devastated and awash in a feeling of somebody gets it! about the moment of queer life in NYC that was ending right as I showed up in the late '80s. . . . Adler gets the feeling of the time more right than almost any historical fiction I've read about the early-middle height of AIDS in NYC
Waiting on a Friend sets a personal story of loss within the backdrop of a city still grieving those lost to AIDS. The effect is a powerful, moving story that speaks to the themes of friendship, found families, and acceptance. With resonant character work and hauntingly beautiful care for those remaining and gone, this book will linger long after the last page
By turns biting and generous, funny and devastating, Waiting on a Friend evokes friendship in all its complexity-its resentments, tender obsessions, marvelous intimacies, and supernatural power
Natalie Adler is bringing one incarnation of the AIDS experience into the present where it all belongs. Someone is listening
Waiting on a Friend is a wildly inventive and moving novel that walks a tightrope of emotion with grace and humour. It's both a portrait of a time and place-New York City in the early 1980s-and a testament to the challenge of carrying on in the face of devastating loss. Natalie Adler has written an astonishingly brilliant debut.