Writers & Lovers

Writers & Lovers

Hardcover
4.04

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Beschreibung

Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria , Lily King returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman.Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she's been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures even more. Casey's fight to fulfil her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink.Writers & Lovers follows Casey--a smart and achingly vulnerable protagonist--in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis. Written with King's trademark humor, heart, and intelligence, Writers & Lovers is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.
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Format
Hardcover
Seitenzahl
256
Preis
17.89 €

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4

I flew through it AND LOVE LOVE LOVED IT!

3

3.5✨ - Mir hat das Buch gefallen, allerdings hatte ich mir mehr erhofft… Lily King ist es wirklich gut gelungen, eine realistische bzw. authentische Geschichte zu schreiben, die so wirkt, als wäre sie direkt aus dem Leben gegriffen. Man begleitet Casey bei ihrem stressigen Alltag, ihrer Arbeit im Restaurant und durchlebt ihre Sorgen: Schulden, fehlende Krankenversicherung, Perspektivlosigkeit, Trauer. Die Story erzählt die Wirklichkeit auf so ehrliche Weise, dass es manchmal, trotz der Ernsthaftigkeit, sogar witzig war! Dennoch konnte mich das Buch nicht ganz abholen, da mir vor allem bei der Liebesgeschichte die Emotionen gefehlt haben.

5

THIS BOOK, you guys. i loved it so much. the story of casey, a struggling writer who falls in love and experiences loss and is trying to get her life together somehow was the best thing i've read in a really really long time. it felt like it was written just for me. what i loved most about this book: * it's a story about an artist, about a woman with a passion who loves what she does even when it's hard * it's a beautiful coming of age-narrative about a woman finding & creating her space in the world. * there's lots of romance but also a strong focus on friendship. * it tells you that it's not too late to live the life you want; you don't have to have everything figured out by the time your 20s are over. good things take time. * plus, the last sentence made me tear up a bit. then i flipped the page to the drawing of the little geese and started full on CRYING.

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