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We Are Not Ourselves - Hardcover

Thomas, Matthew

 
9780007548217: We Are Not Ourselves
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0007548214 ISBN 13: 9780007548217
Verlag: Fourth Estate Ltd, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD
NOMINATED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE
NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

A stunning, heartbreaking debut – `We Are Not Ourselves’ is both the intimate story of a family and an epic of the American Century.

The product of a stormy upbringing in an Irish Catholic enclave of New York City, Eileen craves stability. Coming of age in the early Sixties, she meets and marries a young scientist named Edmund Leary.

But while Eileen wants more for her family, Ed won’t give up teaching for a better-paid job. Inadvertently Eileen starts to climb her own career ladder in nursing. She pushes Ed into finding a new home, but it becomes clear that his resistance is part of a deeply troubling psychological shift.

In this masterful debut, Matthew Thomas paints a sprawling, profoundly sympathetic portrait of a family coping with slow-burning tragedy. `We Are Not Ourselves’ is a grand testament to our deepest hopes and most human frailties.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Matthew Thomas was born and raised in New York City. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he has an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. His novel We Are Not Ourselves was shortlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, longlisted for both the Guardian First Book Award and the Folio Prize, and named a New York Times Notable Book. He lives with his wife and twin children in New Jersey.

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Verlag
Fourth Estate Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0007548214
ISBN 13 
9780007548217
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
640
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