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We Are Not Ourselves
- Item Number
- 1356
- Estimated Value
- 28 USD
- Opening Bid
- 15 USD
Item Description
We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas. Hardcover; new; direct from the publisher. New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 * Washington Post Top 50 Fiction List for 2014 * Entertainment Weekly Ten Best Fiction Books of 2014 * Esquire 5 Most Important Books of 2014 * Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2014 * One of Janet Maslins Ten Favorite Books of the Year in The New York Times. The instant New York Times bestseller The Washington Post calls a stunningsuperbly rendered novel, and Entertainment Weekly describes as a gripping family saga, maybe the bestsince The Corrections. Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on how much alcohol has been consumed. From an early age, Eileen wished that she lived somewhere else. She sets her sights on upper class Bronxville, New York, and an American Dream is born. Driven by this longing, Eileen places her stock and love in Ed Leary, a handsome young scientist, and with him begins a family. Over the years Eileen encourages her husband to want more: a better job, better friends, a better house. It slowly becomes clear that his growing reluctance is part of a deeper, more incomprehensible psychological shift. An inescapable darkness enters their lives, and Eileen and Ed and their son Connell try desperately to hold together a semblance of the reality they have known, and to preserve, against long odds, an idea they have cherished of the future. Described by The New York Times Book Review as A long, gorgeous epic, full of love and caringone of the best novels youll read this year, We Are Not Ourselves is a testament to our greatest desires and our greatest frailties. Through the lives of these characters, Thomas charts the story of the American Century. The result is, stunningThe joys of this book are the joys of any classic work of literaturefor that is what this is destined to becomesuperbly rendered small moments that capture both an individual life and the universality of that persons experience (The Washington Post).
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