Everything Changes

Zusatztext “Jonathan Tropper is the new breed of novelist who writes for men and women with equal ease and grace. Everything Changes is a wonderful and engaging comic novel about the possibility of new life in the midst of emotional disaster.”—-Haven Kimmel! author of The Solace of Leaving Early “Women: Want to know how men think? Here's a smart! funny! brutally honest! much-needed guy's point of view on how messy love can be. Jonathan Tropper makes me laugh and breaks my heart at the same time.” —-Lolly Winston! bestselling author of Good Grief Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Tropper is the author of Everything Changes, The Book of Joe, which was a BookSense selection, and Plan B . He lives with his wife, Elizabeth, and their children in Westchester, New York, where he teaches writing at Manhattanville College. How to Talk to a Widower was optioned by Paramount Pictures, and Everything Changes and The Book of Joe are also in development as feature films. Klappentext Tropper's novel "The Book of Joe" dazzled critics and readers alike with its heartfelt blend of humor and pathos. In "Everything Changes!" the author delivers a touching! wickedly funny new tale about love! loss! and the perils of a well-planned life. Chapter One The night before everything changes, an earthquake jolts me out of my sleep and I instinctively reach over for Tamara, but it isn’t Tamara, of course, it’s Hope. There was never even a time when it might have been Tamara. And yet, lately, whenever I wake up, my first, dazed instinct, before real life comes back into focus, is to assume it’s Tamara in the bed beside me. I suppose that in my dreams, not the one or two that I can recall, but the millions that vanish into oblivion like flies when you’ve barely even begun to move your cupped, ready hand in their direction, in those dreams, she must be mine, over and over again. So there’s always this vaguely troubling notion when I wake up like this, this sense that I’ve somehow been transported to an alternate universe where my life took a left instead of a right because of some seemingly insignificant yet cosmically crucial choice I made, about a girl or a kiss or a date or a job or which Starbucks I went into . . . something. Meanwhile, back in real life, the Upper West Side of Manhattan trembles like a subway platform, rattling windows and uprooting corner trash cans, the shrill wail of multiple car alarms rising up over Broadway, piercing the night at its stillest, in the hour just preceding dawn. “Zack!” Hope shouts, reaching out urgently for me, the volume of her voice almost as startling as the quake, her manicured nails slicing painfully into my shoulder. Hope, not Tamara. That’s right. Beautiful Hope. I open my eyes and say, “What the hell?” It’s the best I can manage under the circumstances. We look up at the ceiling as the bed shimmies lightly under us, and then quickly climb out of bed. My trusty Felix the Cat boxers and her satin Brooks Brothers pajamas belie the postcoital nature of our broken slumber. The tremors have stopped by the time we run downstairs to the living room, where we find Jed, my roommate, standing naked and peering out the window with mild curiosity. “What happened?” I say. “I don’t know,” Jed says, rubbing his toned abdomen absently. “I think it was an earthquake.” He turns from the window and moves lazily toward the couch. “Oh my God!” Hope cries, simultaneously spinning around and covering her eyes. “Oh,” Jed says, first noticing her. “Hi, Hope.” “Can you put that thing away for a minute?” I say on Hope’s behalf. “I didn’t know she was here,” Jed says, making no move to conceal his kinetic nakedness. “Well, you do now,” Hope says in that high, aristocratic whine that never fails to bug me. I love Jed, but he’s been pullin...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jonathan Tropper
• Verlag: Bantam Books USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.03.2006
• EAN: 9780385337427
• ISBN: 978-0-385-33742-7
• Seiten: 352
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 208 mm x 20 mm
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur