Cutting Teeth - Brossura

Fierro, Julia

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1250068401 ISBN 13: 9781250068408

Casa editrice: Griffin, 2015

Riassunto

"One of the most anticipated debut novels of 2014, Cutting Teeth takes place one late-summer weekend as a group of thirty-something couples gather at a shabby beach house on Long Island, their young children in tow. Nicole, the hostess, struggles to keepher OCD behaviors unnoticed. Stay-at-home dad Rip grapples with the reality that his careerist wife will likely deny him a second child, forcing him to disrupt the life he loves. Allie, one half of a two-mom family, can't stop imagining ditching her wifeand kids in favor of her art. Tiffany, comfortable with her amazing body but not so comfortable in the upper-middle class world the other characters were born into, flirts dangerously, and spars with her best friend Leigh, a blue blood secretly facing financial ruin and dependent on the magical Tibetan nanny everyone else covets. Throughout the weekend, conflicts intensify and painful truths surface. Friendships and alliances crack, forcing the house party to confront a new order.Cutting Teeth is about the complex dilemmas of early midlife--the vicissitudes of friendship, of romantic and familial love, and of sex. It's about class tension, status hunger, and the unease of being in possession of life's greatest bounty while still wondering, is this as good as it gets? And, perhaps most of all, Julia Fierro's warm and unpretentious debut explores the all-consuming love we feel for those we need most, and the sacrifice and compromise that underpins that love. "--

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L'autore:

JULIA FIERRO is the founder of The Sackett Street Writers' Workshop, which has been a creative home to over 2000 writers since 2002. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow, her writing has appeared inGuernica, The Millions, Flavorwire, and other publications, and she has been profiled inThe L Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, The Observer and The Economist. Cutting Teeth is her first novel. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their two children.

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• Editore: Griffin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1250068401
• ISBN 13: 9781250068408
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 322