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All Happy Families : A Memoir by the Bestselling Author of the Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier (2019, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOther Press, LLC
ISBN-10159051937X
ISBN-139781590519370
eBay Product ID (ePID)25038476189
Product Key Features
Book TitleAll Happy Families : a Memoir by the Bestselling Author of the Anomaly
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
TopicWomen, European / French, Personal Memoirs, Literary
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorHervé Le Tellier
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight7.8 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2018-031467
Reviews"Moving...The writing is unquestionably sincere." -- Kirkus Reviews " All Happy Families pulls apart the fabric of a dysfunctional family to show its underpinnings, complex and heartbreaking, delicate and nuanced...Le Tellier's masterful writing does his characters justice while not letting them go unscathed, and his ability to see his life and his family with tenderness and love is a blueprint for how we can continue in the face of our pasts. A tender and moving read, its stories stayed with me long after the last page." --Tanya Marquardt, author of Stray: Memoir of a Runaway Praise for Eléctrico W : "An engaging snapshot of these [characters'] briefly intersecting lives." -- New York Times Book Review "Romantic and atmospheric, this novel also benefits from a particularly fine sense of place and time...witty, sad, and interesting." -- Publishers Weekly "Delicate handling of deep themes--loss, missed connections, meaninglessness--gives the novel an emotional charge." --Kirkus Reviews, "Acutely observed...An unexpected coming-of-age tale." --BBC "Moving...The writing is unquestionably sincere." -- Kirkus Reviews "What distinguishes Le Tellier's memoir from the glut of family memoirs that have captivated and horrified readers over the last twenty years? In part, it's the author's plastic imagination: his willingness to let language loose on the discoveries he's made about the family...he brings warmth and intelligibility to cold, lost lives." -- Kenyon Review "A harrowing...and searingly honest reflection on family dysfunction." -- France Today " All Happy Families pulls apart the fabric of a dysfunctional family to show its underpinnings, complex and heartbreaking, delicate and nuanced...Le Tellier's masterful writing does his characters justice while not letting them go unscathed, and his ability to see his life and his family with tenderness and love is a blueprint for how we can continue in the face of our pasts. A tender and moving read, its stories stayed with me long after the last page." --Tanya Marquardt, author of Stray: Memoir of a Runaway Praise for Eléctrico W : "An engaging snapshot of these [characters'] briefly intersecting lives." -- New York Times Book Review "Romantic and atmospheric, this novel also benefits from a particularly fine sense of place and time...witty, sad, and interesting." -- Publishers Weekly "Delicate handling of deep themes--loss, missed connections, meaninglessness--gives the novel an emotional charge." --Kirkus Reviews, " All Happy Families pulls apart the fabric of a dysfunctional family to show its underpinnings, complex and heartbreaking, delicate and nuanced...Le Tellier's masterful writing does his characters justice while not letting them go unscathed, and his ability to see his life and his family with tenderness and love is a blueprint for how we can continue in the face of our pasts. A tender and moving read, its stories stayed with me long after the last page." --Tanya Marquardt, author of Stray: Memoir of a Runaway Praise for Eléctrico W : "An engaging snapshot of these [characters'] briefly intersecting lives." -- New York Times Book Review "Romantic and atmospheric, this novel also benefits from a particularly fine sense of place and time...witty, sad, and interesting." -- Publishers Weekly "Delicate handling of deep themes--loss, missed connections, meaninglessness--gives the novel an emotional charge." --Kirkus Reviews, Praise for Eléctrico W : "An engaging snapshot of these [characters'] briefly intersecting lives." -- New York Times Book Review "Romantic and atmospheric, this novel also benefits from a particularly fine sense of place and time...witty, sad, and interesting." -- Publishers Weekly "Delicate handling of deep themes--loss, missed connections, meaninglessness--gives the novel an emotional charge." --Kirkus Reviews
SynopsisNew York Times Bestselling and Goncourt Prize-Winning Author of The Anomaly A prominent French writer delves into his own history in this eloquent reflection on dysfunctional family relationships. Hervé Le Tellier did not consider himself to have been an unhappy child--he was not deprived, or beaten, or abused. And yet he understood from a young age that something was wrong, and longed to leave. Children sometimes have only the option of escaping, driven by their even greater love of life. Having reached a certain emotional distance at sixty years old, and with his father and stepfather dead and his mother suffering from late-stage Alzheimer's disease, Le Tellier finally felt able to write the story of his family. Abandoned early by his father and raised in part by his grandparents, he was profoundly affected by his relationship with his mother, a troubled woman with damaging views on love. In this perceptive, deeply personal account, Le Tellier attempts to look back on trying times without anger or regret, and sometimes even with humor., A prominent French writer delves into his own history in this eloquent reflection on dysfunctional family relationships., A prominent French writer delves into his own history in this eloquent reflection on dysfunctional family relationships. Herv Le Tellier did not consider himself to have been an unhappy child--he was not deprived, or beaten, or abused. And yet he understood from a young age that something was wrong, and longed to leave. Children sometimes have only the option of escaping, and owe to that escape their even greater love of life. Having reached a certain emotional distance at sixty years old, and with his father and stepfather dead and his mother suffering from late-stage Alzheimer's disease, Le Tellier finally felt able to write the story of his family. Abandoned early by his father and raised in part by his grandparents, he was profoundly affected by his relationship with his mother, a troubled woman with damaging views on love. In this perceptive, deeply personal account, Le Tellier attempts to look back on trying times in his life without anger or regret, and even with humor., New York Times Bestselling and Goncourt Prize-Winning Author of The Anomaly A prominent French writer delves into his own history in this eloquent reflection on dysfunctional family relationships. Herve Le Tellier did not consider himself to have been an unhappy child-he was not deprived, or beaten, or abused. And yet he understood from a young age that something was wrong, and longed to leave. Children sometimes have only the option of escaping, driven by their even greater love of life. Having reached a certain emotional distance at sixty years old, and with his father and stepfather dead and his mother suffering from late-stage Alzheimer's disease, Le Tellier finally felt able to write the story of his family. Abandoned early by his father and raised in part by his grandparents, he was profoundly affected by his relationship with his mother, a troubled woman with damaging views on love. In this perceptive, deeply personal account, Le Tellier attempts to look back on trying times without anger or regret, and sometimes even with humor.
LC Classification NumberPQ2672.E11455Z46
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