The World Without You: A Novel
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品牌: Joshua Henkin
基本信息出版社:Pantheon (2012年6月19日)精装:336页正文语种:英语ISBN:0375424369条形码:9780375424366商品重量:689 gASIN:0375424369您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介From the author of the widely acclaimed novelMatrimony(aNew York TimesNotable Book)--a moving, deeply engaging new novel about love, loss, and the aftermath of a family tragedy.
It's July 4th, 2005, and the Frankel family is descending upon their beloved summer home in the Berkshires. But this is no ordinary holiday: the family is gathering for a memorial. Leo, the youngest of the four Frankel siblings and an intrepid journalist and adventurer, was killed one year ago while on assignment in Iraq. His parents, Marilyn and David, are adrift in grief, and it's tearing apart their forty-year marriage. Clarissa, the eldest, is struggling at thirty-nine with infertility. Lily, a fiery-tempered lawyer, is angry about everything. Noelle, a born-again Orthodox Jew (and the last person to see Leo alive), has come in from Israel with her husband and four children and feels entirely out of place. And Thisbe--Leo's widow and mother of their three-year-old son--has arrived from California bearing her own secret. Over the course of three days, the Frankels will contend with sibling rivalries and marital feuds, volatile women and silent men, and, ultimately, with the true meaning of family.媒体推荐“The World Without Youis an immeasurably moving masterpiece that tracks the intricate threads connecting children to parents, sisters to brothers, wives to husbands. To say I ‘cared’ about these characters would be to hugely understate their consuming effect on me. Like all loving—and complicated, and generous—families, they extended a thread to me. I too, was connected. I lived in their midst, I learned from them, and their poignant struggles continued to affect me long after I read the final page.”
—Heidi Julavits, author ofThe Vanishers
“The World Without Youis marvelous on the solitudes that exist even within the strongest and most compassionate of families, and I love the relentlessness with which it reminds us that our politics will reach its wrecking ball into the lives of even those of us who are most comfortable.”
—Jim Shepard, author ofYou Think That's Bad
“This book is witty and wise, poignant and heartfelt. The 4th of July will never be the same for me, nor for my fellow Americans. I can't imagine a world without Joshua Henkin.”
—Gary Shteyngart, author ofSuper Sad True Love Story
“Ever since reading, and loving, Joshua Henkin's beautiful novel,Matrimony, I've been waiting for his next one—and now, at last, here it is. I know I'm not the only reader eager to sink intoThe World Without You. It's no secret that Henkin is a writer of voluminous heart, humanity, and talent.”
—Julia Glass, author ofThe Widower’s Tale
