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The Interestings (Paperback)
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The Interestings (Paperback)

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Synopsis
On a warm July night in 1974 six teenagers play at being cool. The friendships they make this summer will be the most important and consuming of their lives. In a teepee at summer camp they smoke pot and drink vodka & Tangs, talk of Gunter Grass and the latest cassette tapes; they also share their dreams and ambitions, still so fresh and so possible. But decades later not everyone can sustain in adulthood what had seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, has resigned herself to a more practical occupation; Cathy has stopped dancing; Jonah has laid down his guitar and taken up engineering. Only Ethan's talent has endured. As their fortunes tilt precipitously over the years, some of them dealing with great struggle, others enjoying extraordinary wealth and success, friendships are put under the strain of envy and crushing disappointment. Against the backdrop of a changing America, from Nixon's resignation to Obama's new world, Wolitzer's panoramic tragicomedy asks how 'the Interestings' can be happy with being anything less than brilliant?

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099584094

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“Careful and Thought-Provoking”

It is a great shame that so many readers seem to have committed more time to reading the title than to realising that this is a careful, thought-provoking book. It aims not to wow with cliff-hangers and plot twists,... More

Paperback edition
7th September 2014
Helpful? Upvote 7

“Interestings? Not quite sure”

This is the story of 6 American teenagers who meet at a summer camp for talented children and basically it follows their lives through the next 40 years or so.
I think a book that calls its main characters ”The... More

Paperback edition
20th June 2014
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“The Fairly Interestings”

In 1974, at a summer camp where the emphasis was on the artistic, six teenagers met. Away from parental constraints, they anticipated being grown-up, drinking vodka, smoking pot, and becoming more aware of their... More

Paperback edition
14th June 2014
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