Among the Ten Thousand Things
โ Pierpont, Julia
๐ Fiction
๐
2015;2016
๐ Random House Publishing Group
๐ en-US
โ 165 KB
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Among the Ten Thousand Things
โ Scribed by Julia Pierpont
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2015;2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 167 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0812995236
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โฆ Synopsis
For fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling first novel, a portrait of an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and a startlingly original story of love and time lost.
Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist, charming and vain, who doesn't mean to plunge his family into crisis. His wife, Deb, gladly left behind a difficult career as a dancer to raise the two children she adores. In the ensuing years, she has mostly avoided coming face-to-face with the weaknesses of the man she married. But then an anonymously sent package arrives in the mail: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling Jack's secret life. The package is addressed to Deb, but it's delivered into the wrong hands: her children's.
With this vertiginous opening begins a debut that is by turns funny, wise, and indescribably moving. As the Shanleys spin apart into...
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