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The Interestings: A Novel - Meg Wolitzer
The Interestings: A Novel
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From bestselling author Meg Wolitzer a dazzling, panoramic novel about what becomes of early talent, and the roles that art, money, and even envy can play in close friendships. The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond... show more
From bestselling author Meg Wolitzer a dazzling, panoramic novel about what becomes of early talent, and the roles that art, money, and even envy can play in close friendships. The 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 The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The 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. Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings 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.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781594488399 (1594488398)
ASIN: 1594488398
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
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Lillelara
Lillelara rated it
1.0 The Interestings
In 1974 six teenagers meet at a summer camp for the arts and become close-knit friends, calling themselves ”The Interestings”. Over the following 400+ pages we get to follow the lives of these six people and let me tell you, it is not that interesting. To tell the turth, the story is incredibly bori...
In Love of Books and Friendship
In Love of Books and Friendship rated it
5.0 The Interestings
This was one of my suggestions for our book club based on some reviews I had read about it. While it didn't get selected I'm sorry it didn't as I think it would have made for an excellent discussion. A story about high school teens who meet at a summer camp for gifted children in 1974. Some from ...
Cody's Bookshelf
Cody's Bookshelf rated it
3.5 THE INTERESTINGS Review
Before picking this novel up from a clearance shelf at BAM on a whim, I had never heard of Meg Wolitzer or any of her books. After doing some research, I found out she's been a published writer since the early '80s and has several books to her name. This review is going to focus on one of her recent...
Reading is my ESCAPE from Reality!
Reading is my ESCAPE from Reality! rated it
1.0 Didn't live up to the title...
The Interestings follows a group of privileged, self-centered kids from their teenage years at a summer camp for the arts through adulthood. Julie Jacobson is from a simpler background. She meets the group at camp and decides to change her name to Jules. She is enamored and envious of the rich kids....
Words of a Bibliophile
Words of a Bibliophile rated it
4.0 The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
“You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.” This is the story of a group of friends who met at an art summer camp in the 1970s. They each have a love for a certain form of art, but not all of them have the chance to make it their signature in life. One of ...
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