You or Someone Like You - Couverture souple

Burr; Chandler

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0061829625 ISBN 13 : 9780061829628

Editeur : HARPER COLLINS US BRAND CODE, 2009

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

At once an odyssey of classic literature and a heartbreakingly real portrait of a marriage as it unravels, YOU OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU is the remarkable debut novel from the versatile genius of Chandler Burr, the nationally syndicated New York Times scent critic and author of The Perfect Scent and The Emperor of Scent.

It was a regular Los Angeles evening at one of the industry s favorite watering holes, when someone casually requested that Anne Rosenbaum, the English/American wife of Howard Rosenbaum, a big-deal studio executive, make a reading list. Anne is, after all, a PhD in literature, and is never without a book in her hands. Unexpectedly, Anne finds herself leading a high-level literary salon for Hollywood A-listers and then finds herself transformed into a major tastemaker and producer (reading about herself in the glossy pages of Vanity Fair). Swept up in an improbable moment of intellectual celebrity, and enjoying for the first time in her life the effect of publicly proclaiming her often very controversial opinions about literature, religion, race, and class, she fails to notice troubling changes in her thirty-year-old marriage to Howard, as well as significant signals from her teenaged son Sam.

While Sam s investigation into questions of identity rock Howard and Anne to their cores, Howard is leveled by a crisis of conscience that forces him to leave behind his wife, his son, and everything he loves. In a desperate attempt to communicate with a husband who has shut her out completely, Anne resorts to the book clubs, turning the gossipy channels of the Hollywood elite into a means to reach out to her isolated husband, and speak to him through the literature she has shared with the book clubs. Ultimately, she forsakes everything she has gained--fame, fortune, and newfound friendships--to bring back her husband and reunite her family.

In its very real and vibrant engagement with literature--Anne s reading list brings together everyone from Keats to Joyce to Mamet--YOU OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU is reminiscent of David Denby s GREAT BOOKS; but in the hands of Chandler Burr, these books become the tender and tense strings that hold this family together through a singular and powerful crisis. Told in the winning voice of an unforgettable heroine, YOU OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU is a captivating debut novel.

Quatrième de couverture :

Anne Rosenbaum leads a life of quiet Los Angeles privilege, the wife of Hollywood executive Howard Rosenbaum and mother of their seventeen-year-old son, Sam. Years ago Anne and Howard met studying litera-ture at Columbia—she, the daughter of a British diplo-mat from London, he a boy from an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. Now on sleek blue California evenings, Anne attends halogen-lit movie premieres on the arm of her powerful husband. But her private life is lived in the world of her garden, reading books.

When one of Howard's friends, the head of a studio, asks Anne to make a reading list, she casually agrees—though, as a director reminds her, "no one reads in Hollywood." To her surprise, they begin calling: screen-writers; producers, from their bungalows; and agents, from their plush offices on Wilshire and Beverly. Soon Anne finds herself leading an exclusive book club for the industry elite. Emerging gradually from her seclu-sion, she guides her readers into the ideas and beauties of Donne, Yeats, Auden, and Mamet, with her brilliant and increasingly bold opinions. But when a crisis of identity unexpectedly turns an anguished Howard back toward the Orthodoxy he left behind as a young man, Anne must set out to save what she values above all else: her husband's love.

At once fiercely intelligent and emotionally grip-ping, You or Someone Like You confronts the fault lines between inherited faith and personal creed, and, through the surprising transformation of one exceptional, unfor-gettable woman, illuminates literature's power to change our lives.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: HARPER COLLINS US BRAND CODE
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061829625
• ISBN 13: 9780061829628
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336