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HTML:Named a Summer Must Read by Wall Street Journal, Town & Country, Elle, Harper??s Bazaar, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Bustle, Town & Country, Refinery29, and more
??[Hoby] might have just written the defining New York City novel of our fraught, socially anxious, and politically tumultuous times.? ??Interview
??Intense and addictive.? ??New York Times A powerful novel of youth, desire, and moral conflict, in which a young man is seduced by the mirage of glamour??at terrible cost. Arriving in New York City for an internship at an elite but fading magazine, Luca feels invisible: smart but not worldly, privileged but broke, and uncertain how to navigate a new era of social change. Among his peers is Zara, a young Black woman whose sharp wit and frank views on injustice create tension in the office. Luca is equally drawn to an attractive and wealthy white couple??a prominent artist and her filmmaker husband??whose lifestyle he finds alien and alluring. As summer arrives, Luca is swept up in the fever dream of their marriage, joining them at their beach house, and nurturing an infatuation both frustrating and dangerous. Only after he learns of a spectacular tragedy in the city he has left behind does he begin to realize the moral consequences of his allegiances. In language at once lyrical and incisive, Hermione Hoby (??a writer of extreme intelligence, insight, style and beauty? ??Ann Patchett) offers a clear-eyed, unsettling novel of the allure of… (altro)
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I feel this book really didn't work. It's told in a big foreboding tone, but "what eventually happened" didn't really come across as believable or well-told.
And it was hard to read an entire story with such an insecure young narrator always doubting himself and never happy. Even when he pops into the present tense, he's still unhappy. I think his descriptions of the wife and marriage he ended up with are cruel.
I only bookmarked one part, a passage which I guess gives lie to my claim that Luca is never happy. Describing an impossibly beautiful summer, "I felt a kind of benevolence so acute that I sometimes wanted to cry. It felt like all the days came with fat apples in their mouths. It felt like everything was made of poetry."
Thing is, in the day-to-day passages, he is always self-doubting and never really conveys this happiness which is described above so well in theory. It all just didn't work for me. ( )
Fiction.
Literature.
HTML:Named a Summer Must Read by Wall Street Journal, Town & Country, Elle, Harper??s Bazaar, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Bustle, Town & Country, Refinery29, and more
??[Hoby] might have just written the defining New York City novel of our fraught, socially anxious, and politically tumultuous times.? ??Interview
??Intense and addictive.? ??New York Times A powerful novel of youth, desire, and moral conflict, in which a young man is seduced by the mirage of glamour??at terrible cost. Arriving in New York City for an internship at an elite but fading magazine, Luca feels invisible: smart but not worldly, privileged but broke, and uncertain how to navigate a new era of social change. Among his peers is Zara, a young Black woman whose sharp wit and frank views on injustice create tension in the office. Luca is equally drawn to an attractive and wealthy white couple??a prominent artist and her filmmaker husband??whose lifestyle he finds alien and alluring. As summer arrives, Luca is swept up in the fever dream of their marriage, joining them at their beach house, and nurturing an infatuation both frustrating and dangerous. Only after he learns of a spectacular tragedy in the city he has left behind does he begin to realize the moral consequences of his allegiances. In language at once lyrical and incisive, Hermione Hoby (??a writer of extreme intelligence, insight, style and beauty? ??Ann Patchett) offers a clear-eyed, unsettling novel of the allure of
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And it was hard to read an entire story with such an insecure young narrator always doubting himself and never happy. Even when he pops into the present tense, he's still unhappy. I think his descriptions of the wife and marriage he ended up with are cruel.
I only bookmarked one part, a passage which I guess gives lie to my claim that Luca is never happy. Describing an impossibly beautiful summer, "I felt a kind of benevolence so acute that I sometimes wanted to cry. It felt like all the days came with fat apples in their mouths. It felt like everything was made of poetry."
Thing is, in the day-to-day passages, he is always self-doubting and never really conveys this happiness which is described above so well in theory. It all just didn't work for me. (