With this book has surpassed herself.-The New York Times Book Review A victory. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents be and the shapes their lives take. The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts be inseparable. Decades later however, as the novel unfurls, many of their hopes and dreams have fallen by the wayside as they each have to cope with the vicissitudes of life.About the Book The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence.

On a warm night in 1974 we meet six teenagers – Jules, Cathy, Jonah, Goodman, Ethan and Ash as they drink vodka, smoke pot, and promise to always be interesting. In comparison the opening of The Interestings is a compelling one that immediately entices its reader via a nostalgic backdrop and Wolitzer’s fluid, easy tone.

While Rushie’s dense narrative and plotless prose earned him a place in the BBC Top 100, it certainly didn’t make for the easiest of reads. Meg Wolitzer’s ninth novel, The Interestings was published in 2013 and knowing nothing of its author I bought it on account of its alluring blurb alone.īeginning The Interestings immediately after having finished Midnight’s Children was something of a welcome relief. And so it often happens that I’ll note down the name of a book, yet by the time I get around to reading it I have no recollection of who recommended it or where I first saw it. Such is true of The Interestings. Working in social media by day, much of my time is spent perusing Twitter and reading numerous features on books, both new and old. And so despite having a plethora of books to chose from to take on holiday, I couldn’t resist popping into my local Waterstones to find a new, unread gem. So addicted am I to the buying of books that I’m often guilty of buying duplicate copies of novels I love, just for the sake of it. The amount of unread books I have on my shelves could last me many many months, were I able to avoid the temptation of new books.

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