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Aug 21, 20 the interestings is the us novelist meg wolitzer s 10th book, a long novel concerning the unfolding fates of a group of friends from teenagehood to middle age. The interestings is warm, allamerican, and acutely perceptive about the feelings and motivations of its characters, male and female, young and old, gay and straight. She works as an instructor in the mfa program at stony brook southampton. Meg wolitzer s the interestings follows a group of teens who meet in the 70s at an artsy summer camp and remain friends for the rest of their lives. Its the story of a group of bright, talented kids who bond at summer. Buy the interestings by meg wolitzer online at alibris. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas.
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Meg wolitzers eagerly awaited ninth novel, the interestings, is an ambitious study of fall from grace. Meg wolitzer has 31 books on goodreads with 523485 ratings. Read an exclusive excerpt of meg wolitzers new book, the interestings. The narrative of the film jumps back and forth between the time jules jacobson spent at an arts camp meeting new friends and her current life in middle age with relationships that have transformed in the meantime. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Meg wolitzer s ninth novel, the interestings, is the story of a group of friends who met as teenagers and traces their lives into adulthood. Mar 25, 2014 elle in meg wolitzer s lovely, wise the interestings, julie jacobson begins the summer of 74 as an outsider at arts camp until she is accepted into a clique of teenagers with whom she forms a lifelong bond. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. The interestings is a 2016 american television pilot directed by mike newell based on the novel of the same name by meg wolitzer. Lets just go ahead and call meg wolitzer s fantastic the interestings the book of the moment, the novel you should really read, if you havent already. Buy a cheap copy of the interestings book by meg wolitzer. As they find their places in life, the six deal with their downfalls, prejudices, fears, and insecurities. The interestings reminds readers to pause amidst their crowd of dear ones and try to imagine the farflung futures of these. You can get a headache trying to think about the interestings on a straight timeline, so let us break it down for you first, we get a glimpse of our main cast as teenagers at spiritin the woods, the summer camp that ends up being the formative moment for a lot of what happens later.
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