We are Not Ourselves
Pocketbok. HarperCollins UK. 2015. 640 sidor.
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Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and how much alcohol has been consumed.
When Eileen meets Ed Leary, a scientist whose bearing is nothing like those of the men she grew up with, she thinks she's found the perfect partner to deliver her to the cosmopolitan world she longs to inhabit. They marry, and Eileen quickly discovers Ed doesn't aspire to the same, ever bigger, stakes in the American Dream.
Eileen encourages her husband to want more: a better job, better friends, a better house, but as years pass it becomes clear that his growing reluctance is part of a deeper psychological shift. An inescapable darkness enters their lives, and Eileen and Ed and their son Connell try desperately to hold together a semblance of the reality they have known, and to preserve, against long odds, an idea they have cherished of the future.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780007548323
- Titel
- We are Not Ourselves
- Författare
- Thomas, Matthew
- Förlag
- HarperCollins UK
- Utgivningsår
- 2015
- Omfång
- 640 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 129 x 197 mm Ryggbredd 39 mm
- Vikt
- 445 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 'A long gorgeous epic, full of love and life and caring ... one of the best novels you'll read this year' New York Times 'It's all here: how we live, how we love, how we die, how we carry on ... It's humbling and heartening to read a book this good' Joshua Ferris.
