We Had It So Good: Includes Reading Group Guide: A Novel - Brossura

Grant, Linda

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1451617453 ISBN 13: 9781451617450

Casa editrice: Scribner, 2012

Riassunto

Stephen Newman’s children find it hard to believe that their father once dressed up in Marilyn Monroe’s furs, cooked acid at Oxford and lived with their mother, Andrea, in an anarchist collective. Quite often, Stephen finds it hard to believe himself. Born to immigrant parents in sunny Los Angeles, Stephen never imagined that he would spend his adult life under the gray skies of London, would marry and stay married and would watch his children grow into people he cannot fathom. Over forty years he and his friends have built lives of comfort and success, until the events of late middle age and the new century force them to realize that they have always existed in a fool’s paradise. Linda Grant’s utterly absorbing novel about the generation that came of age during the 1970s reveals the truth about growing up and growing older and once again displays her uncanny ability to illuminate our times.

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Recensione:

“She offers apt commentary on the human denial about aging, the evanescence of happiness, the unparalleled value of loyal friendship, and the mysterious nature of marriage.” —Boston Globe

L'autore:

Linda Grant is a novelist and journalist. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000 and the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage in 2006. She writes for theGuardian, Telegraph, and Vogue. She lives in North London.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1451617453
• ISBN 13: 9781451617450
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 325