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Among the ten thousand things a novel

For fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling first novel, a portrait of an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and a startlingly original story of love and time lost. Jack Shanley is a well-known New York...

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Main Author: Pierpont, Julia.
Other Authors: Huber, Hillary.
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language: English
Published: New York : Random House Audio, 2015.
Edition: Unabridged.
Subjects:
Married people > Fiction.
Sculptors > Fiction.
Ballet dancers > Fiction.
Daughters > Fiction.
Adultery > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
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Summary: For fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling first novel, a portrait of an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and a startlingly original story of love and time lost. Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist, charming and vain, who doesn't mean to plunge his family into crisis. His wife, Deb, gladly left behind a difficult career as a dancer to raise the two children she adores. In the ensuing years, she has mostly avoided coming face-to-face with the weaknesses of the man she married. But then an anonymously sent package arrives in the mail: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling Jack's secret life. The package is addressed to Deb, but it's delivered into the wrong hands: her children's. With this vertiginous opening begins a debut that is by turns funny, wise, and indescribably moving. As the Shanleys spin apart into separate orbits, leaving New York in an attempt to regain their bearings, fifteen-year-old Simon feels the allure of adult freedoms for the first time, while eleven-year-old Kay wanders precariously into a grown-up world she can't possibly understand. Writing with extraordinary precision, humor, and beauty, Julia Pierpont has crafted a timeless, hugely enjoyable novel about the bonds of family life -- their brittleness, and their resilience.
Item Description: Unabridged.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (8 audio files) : digital
Playing Time: 09::0:5:
Format: Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 255960 KB).
ISBN: 9781101912904
Author Notes: Julia Pierpont is a graduate of the NYU Creative Writing Program, where she received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Graduate Fellowship and the Stein Fellowship. Her first book, Among the Ten Thousand Things, was published in 2015.

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