{"product_id":"1594488398-the_interestings","title":"The Interestings","description":"\n\n\u003cp class=\"null1\"\u003e\"A victory . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Interestings\u003c\/i\u003e secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's.\"—\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (A)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"null1\"\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e–bestselling author Meg Wolitzer comes a new novel that has been called “Franzen-like” (\u003ci\u003eV Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e), “wonderful” (\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e), and a “page-turner” (\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e). Jeffrey Eugenides, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Plot\u003c\/i\u003e says: “The wit, intelligence, and deep feeling of Wolitzer's writing are extraordinary and The Interestings brings her achievement, already so steadfast and remarkable, to an even higher level.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In \u003ci\u003eThe Interestings\u003c\/i\u003e, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules’s now-married best friends, become shockingly successful—true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken.\u003cbr\u003e\n Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, \u003ci\u003eThe Interestings\u003c\/i\u003e explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFamily Life\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":47082001498302,"sku":"1594488398-4","price":15.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/61XPU6vKq1L.jpg?v=1778680270","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/1594488398-the_interestings","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}