Private Citizens: `The first great millennial novel' New York Magazine. - Brossura

Tulathimutte, Tony

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ISBN 10: 1786070510 ISBN 13: 9781786070517

Casa editrice: Oneworld Publications, 2016

Riassunto

 

‘A brilliant novel – whip smart, hilarious and entirely engrossing’ Emma Cline, author of The Girls
'Tulathimutte is a big talent’ Jonathan Franzen, author of Purity
'An eloquent social novel bristling with logic’ Nell Zink, Financial Times, Best Summer Books of 2016

*A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 – SELECTED BY JONATHAN FRANZEN*

From a brilliant new literary talent comes a sweeping comic portrait of privilege, ambition and friendship - dubbed ‘the first great millennial novel’ by New York Magazine.

Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the noughties, Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century. Call it a gleefully rude comedy of manners, a Middlemarch for Millennials. The novel's four whip-smart narrators – idealistic Cory, Internet-lurking Will, awkward Henrik, and vicious Linda – are torn between fixing the world and cannibalizing it. In boisterous prose that ricochets between humour and pain, the four estranged friends stagger through the Bay Area’s maze of tech start-ups, protestors, gentrifiers, karaoke bars, house parties and cultish self-help seminars, washing up in each other’s lives once again.

A wise and searching depiction of a generation grappling with privilege and finding grace in failure, Private Citizens is as expansively intelligent as it is full of heart.

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'[A] hilarious portrait of youthful self-centeredness' The Paris Review 'My literary accessory of choice is Tony Tulathimutte s Private Citizens' --Vogue

Razor-sharp...Witty, unsparing and unsettlingly precise' --Kirkus

'A freak of literature a novel so authentic, hilarious, elegantly plotted and heartbreaking I'd follow it anywhere --Jennifer duBois

L'autore

Tony Tulathimutte has written for VICE, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, N+1 I and Salon. A graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he has received an O. Henry Award, a Truman Capote fellowship, a MacDowell Colony fellowship, and the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award. Private Citizens is his debut novel. He lives in New York.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Oneworld Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1786070510
• ISBN 13: 9781786070517
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile