The Interestings

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Unforgettable coming-of-age tale about unlikely friendships.

The Interestings is a heart-warming and insightful novel that beautifully captures the essence of the ups and downs of life-long friendship. Meg Wolitzer's ability to develop her characters and keep you invested in their lives throughout the years is truly remarkable. This book will remind you of the power of friendships and how they can sustain us through all of life's challenges.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2013)
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The Interestings

Regular price $18.42
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$16.58 Thryft Club Member Price
ISBN: 9780701188276
Authors: Meg Wolitzer
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
Date of Publication: 2013-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.59
(rated by 117891 readers)

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‘Every summer we sit like this. We should call ourselves something.’ Ash Wolf said.‘Why?’ said Goodman, her older brother. ‘So the whole world can know just how unbelievably interesting we are?’On a warm July night in 1974 six teenagers play at being cool. The friendships they make this summer will be the most important and consuming of their lives. In a teepee at summer camp they smoke pot and drink vodka & Tangs, talk of Günter Grass and the latest cassette tapes; they also share their dreams and ambitions, still so fresh and so possible.But decades later not everyone can sustain in adulthood what had seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, has resigned herself to a more practical occupation; Cathy has stopped dancing; Jonah has laid down his guitar and taken up engineering. Only Ethan’s talent has endured. As their fortunes tilt precipitously over the years, some of them dealing with great struggle, others enjoying extraordinary wealth and success, friendships are put under the strain of envy and crushing disappointment.Against the backdrop of a changing America, from Nixon’s resignation to Obama’s new world, Wolitzer’s panoramic tragicomedy asks how 'the Interestings' can be happy with being anything less than brilliant?
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Unforgettable coming-of-age tale about unlikely friendships.

The Interestings is a heart-warming and insightful novel that beautifully captures the essence of the ups and downs of life-long friendship. Meg Wolitzer's ability to develop her characters and keep you invested in their lives throughout the years is truly remarkable. This book will remind you of the power of friendships and how they can sustain us through all of life's challenges.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2013)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.