Riassunto:
Gwen, a successful Manhattanite living it up during the 1990s boom, falls in love with a puppeteer and watches her life unravel as their relationship stirs up silt from a past she has tried desperately to escape.
Recensione:
Fernanda Eberstadt's novel is luminous --- not in its magic, although it is
magical, but in its reality: she pecks the eggshell from inside and out. The
book is full of surprises --- and then I had the delight of discovering that
they weren't surprises at all. Everything she writes proves true. She also
happens to write with nearly unbearable honesty about womanhood; the passion and
astonishment of motherhood; the distance that separates women from everything
and everything else."
-- Susanna Moore
“An amazing, fiercely erotic novel, with stretches that are more gripping than anything I’ve read since The Corrections. No other writer has captured our recent American past — the 90’s boom years — so vividly or with such detail and force. Spellbinding reading.”
-- Bret Easton Ellis
“Ms. Eberstadt’s latest effort, The Furies, veers pretty close to genius. ...Eberstadt is an expert, sensual, and at times truly breathtaking conjurer of New York City.”
-- New York Observer
“Unsparing...In a densely allusive, insistently metaphoric prose style, Eberstadt brilliantly employs a form of hectoring direct address to both her protagonists.....[The] plot gains great depth from two exhaustively penetrating characterizations and from Ebersadt’s virtual genius for ironically precise summary statement.”
-Kirkus
“A novelist of exhilarating wit, incandescent metaphors, moral curiosity, and deep-sea psychology. Eberstadt’s mythic and piercing tragedy belongs beside the work of Franzen, Chabon, even DeLillo.”
-- Booklist
“Eberstadt achieves a roil of dark effects in her fourth novel....The author’s gift for acutely rendered detail captivates... Eberstadt’s no-mercy approach is unique and harrowing.”
-Publishers Weekly
“The novel’s prose — taut, fresh and vividly descriptive — can be a positive delight. Like Tom Wolfe, Eberstadt is a precise and witty observer of life in Manhattan.”
-- New York Times Book Review
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