{"product_id":"the-interestings-a-novel-9781594488399","title":"The Interestings: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eNamed a best book of the year by Entertainment Weekly  Time  and The Chicago Tribune  and named a notable book by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post  Remarkable . . . With this book Wolitzer has surpassed herself.The New York Times Book Review  \"A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzers place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . Shes every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isnt womens fiction. Its everyones.\"Entertainment Weekly (A)  From New York Timesbestselling author Meg Wolitzer comes a new novel that has been called \"genius\" (The Chicago Tribune)  wonderful (Vanity Fair)  \"ambitious\" (San Francisco Chronicle)  and a page-turner (Cosmopolitan)  which The New York Times Book Review says is \"among the ranks of books like Jonathan Franzens Freedom and Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot.\"  The summer that Nixon resigns  six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful  but so much else has changed. In The Interestings  Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age  as their talents  fortunes  and degrees of satisfaction diverge.  The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain  in adulthood  what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson  an aspiring comic actress  eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah  a gifted musician  stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash  Juless now-married best friends  become shockingly successfultrue to their initial artistic dreams  with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper  but also underscore the differences in their fates  in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken.  Wide in scope  ambitious  and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City  The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class  art  money  and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646801764405,"sku":"ByrdShop_1594488398","price":26.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781594488399.jpg?v=1781678637","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-interestings-a-novel-9781594488399","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}