The Heights

Zusatztext "Hedges delivers an insightful portrayal of parenthood and the strains and temptations of marriage, even in a seemingly perfect relationship. He also makes some wonderful observations about family life." -Associated Press "[A] quirky, amusing book." - Washington Post " The Heights ' witty and honest take on marital claustrophobia shows the virtue of taking your time." - GQ Magazine " The Heights stays with you. As much a metaphor for being swept off your feet by lofty people or aspirations or location, The Heights delves into the marriage of a futurist woman working for a nonprofit and a history teacher at a Brooklyn Heights private school taking a sabbatical to finish his dissertation on the history of loss." - New York Daily News "Hedges has a knack for taking everyday life and making it fascinating... The Heights us a no-holds-barred expose of suburbia and the strains of marriage and childrearing, but Hedges deftly transforms this weighty subject matter into an addictive blend of melodrama carefully balanced with comedy...creating a novel that is devilishly delightful." -BookPage "A must-read if you've ever longed for more excitement in your life." - Parenting magazine Informationen zum Autor PETER HEDGES is a novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. He wrote both the novel and the screenplay What’s Eating Gilbert Grape , and is the writer-director of Pieces of April starring Katie Holmes and Dan in Real Life starring Steve Carrell. His screenplay for About a Boy was nominated for an Academy Award. Hedges lives with his wife and children in Brooklyn, New York. Klappentext A "devilishly delightful" ( Bookpage ) new novel from an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and the author of What's Eating Gilbert Grape . Tim and Kate Welch are seemingly the last middle-class family in the exclusive neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights! NewYork. Tim is a popular history teacher! and an ordinary guy. Kate is not ordinary! but she aspires to be. Brought up by a hippie mother! Kate stays home with their two young sons trying to be the responsible parent she never had. But their neat and tidy world is turned upside down when Anna Brody- beautiful! wealthy! and impulsive-moves into the most expensive brownstone in Brooklyn! and draws Kate and Tim into her world. Leseprobe 3 KATE THAT MORNING WE WOKE TO FIND OUR STREET BURIED IN SNOW. THE STOOPS, THE sidewalk, the row of parked cars were a blanket of white; the trees looked as if they’d been dipped in frosting, and the whole of Oak Lane—with its impeccably preserved century-old brownstones—had the look of a vintage photograph. Only the loud scrape from an approaching snowplow betrayed what Tim, my history-teaching husband, would like to believe: Erase the plow, remove the light poles and the telephone wires, toss out all electrical appliances, and it could be any other Brooklyn Heights morning, circa 1848 or 1902. Staring down from our fourth-floor apartment, I made out the faint prints from Tim’s boots. Before sunrise, he’d crossed between two parked cars and trudged with his backpack full of graded papers toward Montague Street, where he’d climbed the steps to the Montague Academy. During the night, the thick flakes had fallen gently, but now it was morning, and the wind blew in gusts that rattled the windows of the living room/dining room/toy room where I was standing. I felt a chill. Sam came running down the hall, his diaperless pants at his knees, crying, “Mommy, pee-pee! Pee-pee!” Teddy, newly four, followed, saying, “Sam made a mess!” Minutes before, I’d abruptly left the kitchen because, between the repeated calls of “More milk, Mommy” and “I’m hungry, Mommy” and “Mommy, Sam’s hitting me,” I knew either they’d stop, a...

Product details

• Authors: Peter Hedges
• Publisher: Plume USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.02.2011
• EAN: 9780452296770
• ISBN: 978-0-452-29677-0
• No. of pages: 295
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Plume
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature