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Through welltuned drama and compassionate humor, wolitzer chronicles the living organism that is friendship, and arcs it over the cours. Meg wolitzers fat, talky new novel begins in 1974 at an arts camp in the berkshires where six teenagers sit around in a teepee smoking pot and discussing gunter grass. Pdf the interestings download full pdf book download. The interestings, in meg wolitzer s inviting, ambitious novel of the same name, are a clique of highly selfselected 15yearolds who meet in 1974 at a summer camp in the northeast run by aging socialists.
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It follows a group of teenagers who met at summer camp in the 1970s into adulthood. Shtulman mar 24, 2014 the greatest gift that any writer can give her readers is providing them with a fictional world they can immerse and ultimately lose themselves in. The interestings secures wolitzers place among the best. Mar 25, 2014 elle in meg wolitzer s lovely, wise the interestings, julie jacobson begins the summer of 74 as an outsider at arts camp until she is accepted into a clique of teenagers with whom she forms a lifelong bond. The interestings are mostly beautiful, privileged, hyperintellectual new yorkers and the coolest people julie jacobson, who.
Shes every bit as literary as franzen or eugenides. Meg wolitzer is the new york times bestselling author of the interestings, the uncoupling, the tenyear nap, the position, the wife, and sleepwalking. In wolitzer s 2008 novel, the tenyear nap, amy lamb, another child of the e. Since then, shes written several more novels, as well as short stories and screenplays, and has taught writing at the university of iowa writers workshop and skidmore college. Meg wolitzer born may 28, 1959 is an american novelist, known for the wife, the tenyear nap, the uncoupling, the interestings, and the female persuasion. One of bestselling author meg wolitzer s most beloved books an acerbically funny entertainment weekly and intelligentportrait of deception the new york times. The charm of meg wolitzer s the interestings is that she honors that feeling without ignoring the fact that its far from true. Meg wolitzer books list of books by author meg wolitzer. Meg wolitzer has 31 books on goodreads with 523485 ratings. Meg wolitzer is the new york times bestselling author of ten novels including.
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