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The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
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Length 15 hours 41 minutes
Language English
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Whatever became of the most talented people you once knew?


On a warm summer night in 1974, six teenagers play at being cool. They smoke pot, drink vodka, share their dreams and vow always to be interesting.

Decades later, aspiring actress Jules has resigned herself to a more practical occupation; Cathy has stopped dancing; Jonah has laid down his guitar and Goodman has disappeared. Only Ethan and Ash, now married, have remained true to their adolescent dreams and have become shockingly successful too. As the groupโ€™s fortunes tilt precipitously, their friendships are put under the ultimate strain of envy and crushing disappointment.


โ€˜The wit, intelligence and deep feeling of Wolitzerโ€™s writing are extraordinary and The Interestings brings her achievement, already so steadfast and remarkable, to an even higher levelโ€™ Jeffrey Eugenides

Meg Wolitzer is the author of several acclaimed novels, most recently The Uncoupling (โ€˜tingles with playfulness and wicked observationโ€™ Independent) and The Wife (โ€˜has you howling with recognitionโ€™ Allison Pearson), The Position (โ€˜one of the best and most human books Iโ€™ve read all yearโ€™ Erica Wagner) and The Ten-Year Nap (โ€˜as incisive and pitiless and clear-eyed a chronicler of female-male tandems as Philip Roth or John Updike' Chicago Tribune). She is married with two sons and lives in New York City.

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This is a wonderful book. Intelligent and subtle, it is exquisitely written with enormous warmth and depth of emotionโ€ฆ But what makes The Interestings exceptional is the precision and elegance of Wolitzerโ€™s writingโ€ฆ This should be the novel to make Wolitzer a household name here too Wolitzer is a writer of prodigious energy and detail, with the knack for comic-satirical perceptions of character and culture A complex, cleverly interwoven analysis of the moment when the lives of six friends begin to unravelโ€™ Wolitzer has a knack for homing in on the kind of pretension-puncturing details that can sum up a minor character in a single sentence Meg Wolitzer writes fluently about the American Dream and whether you should surrender your goals to reality in this wonderful novel Expand reviews
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