Want - Couverture souple

Strong, Lynn Steger

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1250801079 ISBN 13 : 9781250801074

Editeur : Picador Paper, 2021

Synopsis

Named a Best Book of 2020 by Time Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, Vulture, The New Yorker, and Kirkus

Grappling with motherhood, economic anxiety, rage, and the limits of language, Want is a fiercely personal novel that vibrates with anger, insight, and love.

Elizabeth is tired. Years after coming to New York to try to build a life, she has found herself with two kids, a husband, two jobs, a PhD--and now they're filing for bankruptcy. As she tries to balance her dream and the impossibility of striving toward it while her work and home lives feel poised to fall apart, she wakes at ungodly hours to run miles by the icy river, struggling to quiet her thoughts.

When she reaches out to Sasha, her long-lost childhood friend, it feels almost harmless--one of those innocuous ruptures that exist online, in texts. But her timing is uncanny. Sasha is facing a crisis, too, and perhaps after years apart, their shared moments of crux can bring them back into each other's lives.

In Want, Lynn Steger Strong explores the subtle violences enacted on a certain type of woman when she dares to want things--and all the various violences in which she implicates herself as she tries to survive.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lynn Steger Strong's first novel, Hold Still, was published in 2016. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Guernica, LARB, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at Catapult and Columbia University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador Paper
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250801079
• ISBN 13: 9781250801074
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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