Autobiography of Us - Brossura

Sloss, Aria Beth

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ISBN 10: 1250044057 ISBN 13: 9781250044051

Casa editrice: Picador USA, 2014

Riassunto

Struggling to define themselves against the backdrop of the 1960s social revolution, Rebecca and her reckless friend, Alex, long for lives beyond the limitations of their mothers' narrow expectations and are separated by an act of betrayal that Rebecca reevaluates decades later. A first novel. 40,000 first printing.

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[A] gorgeous first novel...Raw and vital, Autobiography of Us leaves us marveling at the strange, beautiful architecture of redemption.--Maggie Shipstead, author of Seating Arrangements Engaging...Explores the loves, losses, and shifting friendship of two privileged Southern California girls.--People Delicate, bittersweet.--USAToday.com Powerful...Both moving and engrossing.--Parade. Plays out [two] friends' complicated dynamic against a tableau of enormous changes for women...[Autobiography of Us] blossoms in stirring and surprising ways.--The New York Times [A] sharply imagined debut...Sloss writes with assured grace, capturing the conflicted sensibilities of a generation of women.--O, The Oprah Magazine. An homage to friendship.--Marie Claire Every female friendship has a script of its own. The one playing out in this debut novel is a gripping hybrid--Beaches crossed with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.--More Magazine. A fiercely intelligent and captivating debut and an intimate portrait of female friendship, Autobiography of Us illuminates the challenges faced by an entire generation of American women.--Jennifer Vanderbes, author of Easter Island and Strangers at the Feast. A smooth first-person narrative...The story's hopeful end is tempered with the realization that, had the central characters been born a generation later, maybe their lives would have been better.--Publishers Weekly. Captivating, engrossing, surprising...Sloss' debut novel sweeps across the tumultuous events of the late 1950s through the 1980s and...celebrates the terrible struggle to find one's identity as it elegiacally rues the necessary losses.--Kirkus. At its heart, the novel is a tragic elegy to spirited women in decades past who were forced to silence their dreams and desires, and whose lives were not what they might otherwise have been. Shelf Awareness --Various

L'autore:

Aria Beth Sloss is a graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Iowa Arts Foundation, the Yaddo Corporation, and the Vermont Studio Center, and her writing has appeared in Glimmer Train, the Harvard Review, and online at The Paris Review and FiveChapters. She lives in New York City.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1250044057
• ISBN 13: 9781250044051
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 292