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We All Want Impossible Things de Catherine Newman

We All Want Impossible Things: Harper Perennial

Autor Catherine Newman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 aug 2024

Observăm în We All Want Impossible Things o structură narativă construită pe alternanța fină între prezentul fragil al unui centru de îngrijire paliativă și densitatea a patru decenii de amintiri comune. Catherine Newman nu alege calea unei cronologii liniare, ci preferă să lase memoria să dicteze ritmul, transformând experiența iminentă a pierderii într-o celebrare vibrantă a tot ceea ce înseamnă să fii viu. Reținem vocea lui Ash, care pendulează între rolul de prietenă devotată și realitatea propriei vieți imperfecte, marcată de un divorț neterminat și provocările maternității.

Romanul amintește de Before Everything de Victoria Redel prin tema centrală a grupului de prietene care se reunește în fața bolii terminale, dar se diferențiază prin infuzia constantă de umor domestic și prin modul în care Newman refuză să transforme suferința în ceva solemn sau intangibil. Atmosfera este una de intimitate profundă, unde momentele de regrete și durere sunt întrerupte, aproape salvator, de absurdul cotidian — cum ar fi muzica din „Scripcarul pe acoperiș” care răsună din camera vecină.

În contextul operei sale, această incursiune în beletristică pare o evoluție firească pentru Catherine Newman. Dacă în lucrări precum How to Be a Person sau What Can I Say? autoarea oferea ghiduri practice despre empatie și navigarea relațiilor sociale, aici ea aplică aceleași principii într-un cadru emoțional extrem. Rezultatul este un portret onest al devotamentului feminin, care demonstrează că, deși moartea este certă, modul în care alegem să ne însoțim unii pe alții până la pragul ei este ceea ce definește umanitatea noastră.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780063230927
ISBN-10: 0063230925
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 132 x 204 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
Colecția HarperPerennial
Seria Harper Perennial

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Recomandăm această carte oricui a înțeles că marile iubiri ale vieții nu sunt întotdeauna romantice, ci pot fi acele prietenii care supraviețuiesc deceniilor. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă luminoasă, deși sfâșietoare, asupra doliului, învățând că râsul și plânsul pot coista în aceeași secundă. Este o lectură despre curajul de a rămâne lângă cineva când totul devine imposibil, oferind confort prin onestitatea sa brutală și caldă.

Despre autor

Catherine Newman este o autoare americană recunoscută pentru capacitatea de a observa detaliile pline de însemnătate ale vieții de familie și ale prieteniei. Popularitatea sa a crescut datorită rubricilor de parenting din publicații precum „Family Fun Magazine” și blogului „Bringing Up Ben & Birdy”. Expertiza sa în etichetă socială și dezvoltarea abilităților de comunicare pentru copii și adolescenți, reflectată în volume ca What Can I Say?, se traduce în proza sa prin dialoguri autentice și o înțelegere profundă a dinamicii interumane.

Notă biografică

CATHERINE NEWMAN has written a gazillion columns, articles, and canned-bean recipes for magazines and newspapers, and her essays have been widely anthologized. She is the author of the memoirs Waiting for Birdy and Catastrophic Happiness, the middle-grade novel One Mixed-Up Night, and the bestselling kids' life-skills books How to Be a Person and What Can I Say? We All Want Impossible Things is her first adult novel. Not, like, adult adult in the porn way. Just, you know, for grown-ups. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Descriere scurtă

?Catherine Newman sees the heartbreak and comedy of life with wisdom and unflinching compassion. The way she finds the extraordinary in the everyday is nothing short of poetry. She's a writer's writer?and a human's human.??New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center
?A riotously funny and fiercely loyal love letter to female friendship. The story of Edi and Ash proves that a best friend is a gift from the gods. Newman turns her prodigious talents toward finding joy even in the friendship's final days. I laughed while crying, and was left revived. Newman is a comic masterhand and a dazzling philosopher of the day-to-day.??Amity Gaige, author of Sea Wife
?The funniest, most joyful book about dying?and living?that I have ever read.??KJ Dell'Antonia, author of the New York Times bestselling The Chicken Sisters
For lovers of Meg Wolitzer, Maria Semple, and Jenny Offill comes this raucous, poignant celebration of life, love, and friendship at its imperfect and radiant best.
Edith and Ashley have been best friends for over forty-two years. They've shared the mundane and the momentous together: trick or treating and binge drinking; Gilligan's Island reruns and REM concerts; hickeys and heartbreak; surprise Scottish wakes; marriages, infertility, and children. As Ash says, ?Edi's memory is like the back-up hard drive for mine.?
But now the unthinkable has happened. Edi is dying of ovarian cancer and spending her last days at a hospice near Ash, who stumbles into heartbreak surrounded by her daughters, ex(ish) husband, dear friends, a poorly chosen lover (or two), and a rotating cast of beautifully, fleetingly human hospice characters.
As The Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack blasts all day long from the room next door, Edi and Ash reminisce, hold on, and try to let go. Meanwhile, Ash struggles with being an imperfect friend, wife, and parent?with life, in other words, distilled to its heartbreaking, joyful, and comedic essence.
For anyone who's ever lost a friend or had one. Get ready to laugh through your tears.

Recenzii

“This is an absolute heartbreaker of a novel. Catherine Newman’s book, through deceptively simple language and everyday moments experienced during a friend’s hospice death — funny, sad, regretful, hopeful — is a celebration of life. For anyone who has prepared a hole in their heart for loss, We All Want Impossible Things is a reminder that, in time, that hollowed hallowed space is also there for when the light and love from grief pour back in.” — Laura Zigman, author of Separation Anxiety
“A novel set in a hospice has no right to be as hilarious, charming, and hopeful as We All Want Impossible Things. With Nora Ephron-style lightness, Catherine Newman has constructed a truly singular tale of love and friendship in the twenty-first century. I loved it.” — Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year
“A warm and remarkably funny book about death and caregiving that will make readers laugh through their tears.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"In author Catherine Newman's expert hands, We All Want Impossible Things is an extraordinary ode to friendship–warm, sometimes outrageously funny, and as real as it gets. It celebrates the gift of long-term bonds without shying away from the pain of losing someone you can't imagine life without." — Real Simple
"Pulses with life . . . . full of moments both mundane and painful, hilarious and heartbreaking.” — BookPage (starred review)
“Newman packs a gut punch, bringing humor and wit to a duo's final days together in We All Want Impossible Things.” — PopSugar
“Devastatingly hilarious and poignantly poetic story about the intimacy of female bonds.” — E! News
“Fearless, open-hearted, funny, and provocative.” — Lit Hub
"Compulsively readable and tenderly hilarious." — Ploughshares
“Affirming, entertaining, and unaccountably, wonderfully funny” — Romper
"Catherine Newman sees the heartbreak and comedy of life with wisdom and unflinching compassion. The way she finds the extraordinary in the everyday is nothing short of poetry. She’s a writer’s writer—and a human’s human." — New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center
"We All Want Impossible Things is a riotously funny and fiercely loyal love letter to female friendship. The story of Edi and Ash proves that a best friend is a gift from the gods. Newman turns her prodigious talents toward finding joy even in the friendship’s final days. I laughed while crying, and was left revived. Newman is a comic masterhand and a dazzling philosopher of the day-to-day." — Amity Gaige, author of Sea Wife
“The funniest, most joyful book about dying—and living—that I have ever read.”   — KJ Dell’Antonia, author of The Chicken Sisters
"Gorgeous, tender, and unexpectedly funny. I read the entirety of Edi and Ash's story with my hand clasped over my heart." — Kate Baer, #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman and I Hope This Finds You Well
“Devastatingly humorous and humorously devastating, We All Want Impossible Things is an unbelievably brilliant and funny book about friendship, family, food, sex, and death. Catherine Newman serves up a masterclass in narrative – you’ll stay up late devouring every word.” — Katherine Heiny, author of Early Morning Riser and Standard Deviation
“The poignant and personal story of the decades-long friendship of Edith and Ashley takes place in a hospice ward, where Edi is dying of ovarian cancer. Sound sad? Heartbreaking? It is. But it’s also heartwarming and life affirming—and yes, hilarious.” — Publishers Weekly
"I adored this book. There is so much love, funniness, honesty, courage, mess, bounce, and surprise in this book, and not a shred of it is mawkish. Loss might be the central theme–or rather the process of losing your dearest friend–but it is the most robust and glorious affirmation of life. Pure genius and an utter joy to read." — Rachel Joyce, bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
"How did Catherine Newman write a book about dying that is so luminously alive? Earthy, funny, and terrifyingly honest—this is a book with heart and guts and all the other goopy gravy we need to stay among the living. A radical delight." — Rufi Thorpe, PEN/ Faulkner Finalist for The Knockout Queen
"Here and throughout, Newman does a wonderful job channeling Ash’s sense of impending loss . . . . Newman breathes ample life into this exquisite story of death and dying." — Publishers Weekly
"Breezy New York Nora-Ephron-style wit meets hospice memoir to create something PROFOUNDLY beautiful. Grief, love, cake—it's ALL there." — Marian Keyes, international bestselling author of Rachel's Holiday
“[Newman] brings Ash to life through a voice that is both hilarious and filled with crushing sadness, but the ultimate message is that of hope. A crossover readalike for fans of death memoirs such as those by Paul Kalanithi and Nora McInerny.” — Booklist
"Can NOT put this down. Read for two-plus hours straight last night. Read while standing in line today. Read any free minutes. So, so, so good . . . Smart women friendship fiction at its best." — Zibby Owens
“Here is the thing about this book. It is excruciatingly heartbreaking, but I laughed out loud on almost every page. And I am not an easy laugher. Newman’s voice is hilarious and warm; her characters feel like old friends . . . . a winning novel.” — New York Times
"This is one of my new favorite books—a smart friendship story that made me laugh and cry. Truly." — Zibby Owens, GMA.com
"[A] hug of a book . . . . a humorous, touching rumination on life, death, and friendship.” — Apartment Therapy
“I never thought any book would have me weeping more than A Little Life, but Catherine Newman’s We All Want Impossible Things broke that record . . . . Pairs well with Kathryn Schulz’s Lost & Found and/or Janine Kwoh’s Welcome to the Grief Club.”
— Southern Bookseller Review
"A tender, raucous, heart-wrenching, laugh-out-loud, thoughtful and honest exploration of friendship, life and death." — BookReporter