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Talent~A Novel~Juliet Lapidos~Hardcover, 2019~Funny Smart Fiction~FAST SHIPPING

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Type
Novel
Narrative Type
Fiction
ISBN
9780316480550
Book Title
Talent
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
Item Length
9.5 in
Publication Year
2019
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.2 in
Author
Juliet Lapidos
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Coming of Age, Literary, Humorous / General
Item Weight
15.6 Oz
Item Width
6.4 in
Number of Pages
256 Pages
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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
031648055X
ISBN-13
9780316480550
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038261132

Product Key Features

Book Title
Talent
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Coming of Age, Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Fiction
Author
Juliet Lapidos
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
15.6 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-964329
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
" Talent is a wry meditation on ambition and an ingeniously constructed parable for our times. With wide-ranging erudition and pitch-perfect repartee, Juliet Lapidos reveals the terrible risk we take when we pity an artist."-- Lucy Ives, author of Impossible Views of the World
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 -- LitHub, The Millions, Thrillist, Entertainment Weekly In this "deliciously funny, sharp, and sincere (Helen Oyeyemi)" debut, a young graduate student writing about--and desperately searching for--inspiration stumbles upon it in the unlikeliest of places. Anna Brisker is a twenty-nine-year-old graduate student in English at Collegiate University who can't seem to finish her dissertation. Her project: an intellectual history of inspiration. And yet, for the first time, Anna has found herself utterly uninspired. Rather than work on her thesis, she spends her days eating Pop-Tarts and walking the gritty streets of New Harbor, Connecticut. As Anna's adviser is quick to remind her, time is running out. She needs the perfect case study to anchor her thesis-and she needs it now. Amid this mounting pressure, Anna strikes up a tenuous friendship with the niece of the famous author Frederick Langley. Freddy wrote three successful books as a young man, then published exactly nothing for the rest of his wayward, hermetic life. Critics believe Freddy suffered from an acute case of writer's block, but his niece tells Anna that there's more to the story: When he died, he was at work on something new. With exclusive access to the notebooks of an author who was inspired, uninspired, and potentially reinspired, Anna knows she's found the perfect case study. But as fascination with Freddy blooms into obsession, Anna is drawn irrevocably into the criminal machinations of his sole living heir. A modern twist on the Parable of the Talents, Lapidos's debut is a many-layered labyrinth of possible truths that reveal at each turn the danger of interpreting another person's intentions--literary or otherwise., "A clever and delightfully complicated debut...Each bend in this story raises more questions than are answered, in the best of ways and right to the end."-- San Francisco Chronicle Any student of narrative would agree that Anna Brisker, former star of the English department, should be on the brink of a brilliant academic career. But at twenty-nine, Anna is aimless, indolent, nearing the eighth year of her PhD and unable to finish her dissertation, an intellectual history of inspiration. (No, the irony is not lost on her.) Anna encounters a potential solution to her stasis in the form of Helen Langley, a magnetic, free-spirited woman who's the niece of the late, legendary writer Frederick Langley. Having published three classics in his youth, Freddy fell silent, and the literary world assumed he never wrote again. But Helen confides to Anna that he kept secret notebooks in his later years, notebooks that Helen might be willing to show Anna. As her fascination with Freddy (and Helen) blooms into obsession, Anna finds herself falling prey to fatal misreadings - of herself and others. A sly and playful unpacking of the cult of the artist that excoriates academia with devilish glee, Talent brings the pressures of the 21st century to bear on the classic campus novel, weaving a twisty, brainy, wickedly hilarious story about our desperate need to believe that we understand...anything. One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year -- LitHub, The Millions , Thrillist, Entertainment Weekly
LC Classification Number
PS3612.A6434T35 2019

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