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The Weekend
A Novel
Taschenbuch von Charlotte Wood
Sprache: Englisch

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#1 International Bestseller * Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2020 * Longlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Award

When three best friends in their seventies come together for one last summer weekend to mark the death of a fourth friend, they begin to see their lives and loyalty to one another more clearly.

For nearly four decades, lifelong friends Jude, Wendy, Adele, and Sylvie have seen each other through romances, child-rearing, changing careers, divorces, medical recoveries, and general aging. But now Sylvie has died, and the three remaining women are tasked with cleaning out her beach house before it's sold. Over the course of a hot, muggy weekend, Jude, Wendy, and Adele gather for one last time in this memory-filled spot on the beach, and get to work restoring the house, and - in Sylvie's absence - their trust in one another.

It's not a sentimental event. The weather is sticky, the work is grimy, and Sylvie's absence brings constant tension. It's immediately clear that Sylvie had been the one who made the friendship work between such utterly different women: "perfect Jude" with her perfectly designed life and long-standing relationship with a married man; feminist, intellectual, widowed Wendy, now obsessed with keeping her elderly dog alive; and glamorous, preening Adele, a former star of the stage, now practically broke and homeless. Thrust together in this weathered old house on the ocean, where the ghosts of their younger selves compete with their current realities, the women ponder a collective lifetime of loves and grievances, disappointments and successes, and ultimately, how a life can change in a single unexpected instant - or over the course of a weekend.
#1 International Bestseller * Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2020 * Longlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Award

When three best friends in their seventies come together for one last summer weekend to mark the death of a fourth friend, they begin to see their lives and loyalty to one another more clearly.

For nearly four decades, lifelong friends Jude, Wendy, Adele, and Sylvie have seen each other through romances, child-rearing, changing careers, divorces, medical recoveries, and general aging. But now Sylvie has died, and the three remaining women are tasked with cleaning out her beach house before it's sold. Over the course of a hot, muggy weekend, Jude, Wendy, and Adele gather for one last time in this memory-filled spot on the beach, and get to work restoring the house, and - in Sylvie's absence - their trust in one another.

It's not a sentimental event. The weather is sticky, the work is grimy, and Sylvie's absence brings constant tension. It's immediately clear that Sylvie had been the one who made the friendship work between such utterly different women: "perfect Jude" with her perfectly designed life and long-standing relationship with a married man; feminist, intellectual, widowed Wendy, now obsessed with keeping her elderly dog alive; and glamorous, preening Adele, a former star of the stage, now practically broke and homeless. Thrust together in this weathered old house on the ocean, where the ghosts of their younger selves compete with their current realities, the women ponder a collective lifetime of loves and grievances, disappointments and successes, and ultimately, how a life can change in a single unexpected instant - or over the course of a weekend.
Über den Autor
Charlotte Wood
Zusammenfassung
CRITICAL ACCLAIM: Charlotte Wood is a highly awarded, major commercial success in her native Australia. Her previous novel won multiple Australian literary prizes and received praise from everyone from Liane Moriarty and Paula Hawkins to NPR and The Ecomomist.

HUGE OPPORTUNITY: Still, only one of Wood's books has been published in the United States, by Europa. That book signalled Wood's literary importance and commercial appeal. This is the book to break her out. The Weekend is a commercial conceit, delivering the sharp wit and layered thinking that Wood is known for internationally.

GREAT HOOK: This book combines smart, literary writing; a delicious, beach-front setting; and a story about lifelong female friendship, loyalty, betrayal, infidelity, aging, grief, pets, family-all with a little Australian real estate porn.

UNFORGETTABLE FRIENDS: Jude, Wendy, and Adele are complex, spirited characters, whose interior lives are beautifully depicted on the page, and whose relationships with each other are loving and prickly and nuanced.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 262
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780593086445
ISBN-10: 0593086449
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wood, Charlotte
Hersteller: Penguin LLC US
Riverhead Books
Maße: 130 x 201 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Charlotte Wood
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.08.2021
Gewicht: 0,222 kg
preigu-id: 119916053
Über den Autor
Charlotte Wood
Zusammenfassung
CRITICAL ACCLAIM: Charlotte Wood is a highly awarded, major commercial success in her native Australia. Her previous novel won multiple Australian literary prizes and received praise from everyone from Liane Moriarty and Paula Hawkins to NPR and The Ecomomist.

HUGE OPPORTUNITY: Still, only one of Wood's books has been published in the United States, by Europa. That book signalled Wood's literary importance and commercial appeal. This is the book to break her out. The Weekend is a commercial conceit, delivering the sharp wit and layered thinking that Wood is known for internationally.

GREAT HOOK: This book combines smart, literary writing; a delicious, beach-front setting; and a story about lifelong female friendship, loyalty, betrayal, infidelity, aging, grief, pets, family-all with a little Australian real estate porn.

UNFORGETTABLE FRIENDS: Jude, Wendy, and Adele are complex, spirited characters, whose interior lives are beautifully depicted on the page, and whose relationships with each other are loving and prickly and nuanced.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 262
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780593086445
ISBN-10: 0593086449
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wood, Charlotte
Hersteller: Penguin LLC US
Riverhead Books
Maße: 130 x 201 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Charlotte Wood
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.08.2021
Gewicht: 0,222 kg
preigu-id: 119916053
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