I See You Everywhere

Zusatztext A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year “Rich, intricate and alive with emotion.... An honest portrait of sister-love and sister-hate-interlocking, brave and forgiving-made whole through art.” — The New York Times Book Review “Glass writes the sort of novels that you wish would go on forever.... I See You Everywhere is a lovely and heartbreaking book, and it ends far too soon.” — The Miami Herald “Nowhere are the ebbs and flows, the complex and often ugly nuances, the bonds and the breaks between sisters more achingly or more piercingly explored.” — USA Today “So heartbreakingly luminous that you'd swear Glass had access to your own most secret thoughts.” — Redbook “Extraordinarily good.... Unusually rich and complex.” — The Boston Globe “One doesn't read so much as sink into a Julia Glass novel.... A haunting dissection of human fragility.” — People “Glass is Edith Wharton for the twenty-first century.... Wharton wrote more than forty-eight books in her lifetime. American literature could use a few more from Glass.” — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Sheer pleasure for readers who love stories about complicated family relationships.” — San Francisco Chronicle Informationen zum Autor Julia Glass is the author of Three Junes, which won the National Book Award for Fiction, and The Whole World Over. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her short fiction has won several prizes, including the Tobias Wolff Award and the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Medal for the Best Novella. She lives with her family in Massachusetts. Klappentext NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year Julia Glass! the bestselling! National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes ! returns with a tender! riveting book of two sisters and their complicated relationship. Louisa Jardine is the older one! the conscientious student! precise and careful: the one who yearns for a good marriage! an artistic career! a family. Clem! the archetypal youngest! is the rebel: committed to her work saving animals! but not to the men who fall for her. In this vivid! heartrending story of what we can and cannot do for those we love! the sisters grow closer as they move further apart. All told with sensual detail and deft characterization! I See You Everywhere is a candid story of life and death! companionship and sorrow! and the nature of sisterhood itself. Swim to the Middle1980I avoid reunions. I’m not a rebel, a recluse, or a sociopath, and I’m too young to qualify as a crank, even if it’s true that I just spent the evening of my twenty-fifth birthday not carousing with friends or drinking champagne at a candlelit table for two but resolutely alone and working, glazing a large ovoid porcelain bowl while listening to Ella Fitzgerald sing songs by the Gershwin brothers. (A crank could never love Gershwin.) My one real boyfriend in college, just before we broke up, told me I’m nostalgic to a fault. He professed contempt for what he called “the delusional sound track to our parents’ deluded lives.” He informed me that you can’t be nostalgic for things that had their heyday before you were so much as born. Just about any member of my family would have laughed him out the door and down the garden path.Family reunions are the worst—all that competition disguised as fellowship—and they’re also the hardest to avoid. But when my father’s Great-Aunt Lucy died last summer, there was an inheritance at stake, a collection of antique jewelry. Not the glossy priceless stuff—no diamonds, tiaras, or niagaras of pearls. Not things you’d sell but things so deliciously old-fashioned ...

Product details

• Authors: Julia Glass
• Publisher: Anchor Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2009
• EAN: 9781400075775
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-7577-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 203 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature