Among the Ten Thousand Things: A Novel
Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780812995220 (0812995228)
ASIN: 0812995228
Publish date: 2015-07-07
Publisher: Random House
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Among the ten thousand things, Julia Pierpont, author, Hillary Huber, narrator When the book began, I was stunned by the extent of filthy language and graphic sexual descriptions used. I almost stopped listening, but instead, I decided to look up some of the reviews to see if there was a warning abo...
I picked this book from NetGalley because it was for fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore and Curtis Sittenfeld, and I am a fan of all of them. Despite how much I love them, though, they can occasionally tip the scales with a too-precious, self-consious style. This book has received...
Among the Ten Thousand Things, the debut novel by Julia Pierpont, has a beautiful cover, an intriguing title, an emotional premise, and a strong beginning. Unfortunately, the rest of the book for me does not quite live up to the promise of the beginning. Be warned, that Part 2 is a spoiler – it tell...
What did I think? NOT the book for me. It was rather depressing and it just seemed overly busy. Besides a family in torment, not much else going on. I need a bowl of laughs right about now to lighten the mood. Nah. This didn't work for me. One more tiny, incredibly annoying fact: I'm not exactly ...
I had a really hard time with this one. Half way through it sort of lost me, and while I found the plot again fairly quickly, I just didn't understand why the middle section was there at all.The story follows a family as they deal with a husband/father that has not been faithful - and they find out ...
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