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Автор: Lombardo Claire
Название: The Most Fun We Ever Had
ISBN: 9780593102763
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация:

Модернистская и современная художественная литература

ISBN-10: 0593102762
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 845
Вес: 0.70 кг.
Дата издания: 25.06.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 231 x 152 x 38
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Everything about this brilliant debut cuts deep: the humor, the wisdom, the pathos. Claire Lombardo writes like shes been doing it for a hundred years, and like shes been alive for a thousand.
--Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers

A dazzling, multigenerational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in love after forty years--recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives theyve built.

When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, they are blithely ignorant of all thats to come. By 2016, their four radically different daughters are each in a state of unrest: Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator-turned-stay-at-home-mom, battles anxiety and self-doubt when the darkest part of her past resurfaces; Liza, a neurotic and newly tenured professor, finds herself pregnant with a baby shes not sure she wants by a man shes not sure she loves; and Grace, the dawdling youngest daughter, begins living a lie that no one in her family even suspects. Above it all, the daughters share the lingering fear that they will never find a love quite like their parents.

As the novel moves through the tumultuous year following the arrival of Jonah Bendt--given up by one of the daughters in a closed adoption fifteen years before--we are shown the rich and varied tapestry of the Sorensons past: years marred by adolescence, infidelity, and resentment, but also the transcendent moments of joy that make everything else worthwhile.

Spanning nearly half a century, and set against the quintessential American backdrop of Chicago and its prospering suburbs, Lombardos debut explores the triumphs and burdens of love, the fraught tethers of parenthood and sisterhood, and the baffling mixture of affection, abhorrence, resistance, and submission we feel for those closest to us. In painting this luminous portrait of a familys becoming, Lombardo joins the ranks of writers such as Celeste Ng, Elizabeth Strout, and Jonathan Franzen as visionary chroniclers of our modern lives.

The Most Fun We Ever Had, Lombardo Claire