New Life : A Novel by Tom Crewe (2024, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherScribner

ISBN-101668000849

ISBN-139781668000847

eBay Product ID (ePID)2332291274

Product Key Features

Book TitleNew Life : a Novel

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicHistorical, Lgbt / General

GenreFiction

AuthorTom Crewe

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight10.7 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2023-011355

Reviews"[An] auspicious debut... Crewe uses meticulously researched period details to great effect, and rounds out the narrative with solid characters and tight pacing. Readers will look forward to seeing what this talented author does next." -- Publishers Weekly "A deft melding of the personal and the political, written in prose that shines." --Kirkus Review, " The New Life is filled with nuance and tenderness, steeped in the atmosphere of late nineteenth century London, a world on the brink of social and sexual change. Tom Crewe's brilliant novel dramatizes the relationship between the visionary and the brave, charting the lives of men and women who inspired not only political progress but an entire new way of living and loving." --Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn and The Magician

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SynopsisWinner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger, the Sunday Times Young Writer Award, the Betty Trask Prize, and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker , L os A ngeles Times , The Guardian , and T he T imes (London) * The Sunday Times (London) Novel of the Year * Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction, the Polari Prize, and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction* Selected for Kirkus Reviews 's Best Fiction Books of the Year A captivating and "remarkable" ( The Boston Globe ) debut that "brims with intelligence and insight" ( The New York Times ), about two marriages, two forbidden love affairs, and the passionate search for social and sexual freedom in late 19th-century London. In the summer of 1894, John Addington and Henry Ellis begin writing a book arguing that homosexuality, which is a crime at the time, is a natural, harmless variation of human sexuality. Though they have never met, John and Henry both live in Victorian London with their wives, Catherine and Edith, and in each marriage, there is a third party: John has a lover, a working-class man named Frank, and Edith spends almost as much time with her friend Angelica as she does with Henry. John and Catherine have three grown daughters and a long, settled marriage, over the course of which Catherine has tried to accept her husband's sexuality and her own role in life; Henry and Edith's marriage is intended to be a revolution in itself, an intellectual partnership that dismantles the traditional understanding of what matrimony means. Shortly before the book is to be published, Oscar Wilde is arrested. John and Henry must decide whether to go on, risking social ostracism and imprisonment, or to give up the project for their own safety and the safety of the people they love. A richly detailed, powerful, and visceral queer historical novel about love, sex, and the struggle for a better world, The New Life brilliantly asks: "What's worth jeopardizing in the name of progress?" ( The New York Times Book Review , Editors' Choice)., Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger, the Sunday Times Young Writer Award, the Betty Trask Prize, and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature - Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker , L os A ngeles Times , The Guardian , and T he T imes (London) - The Sunday Times (London) Novel of the Year - Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction, the Polari Prize, and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction - Selected for Kirkus Reviews 's Best Fiction Books of the Year A captivating and "remarkable" ( The Boston Globe ) debut that "brims with intelligence and insight" ( The New York Times ), about two marriages, two forbidden love affairs, and the passionate search for social and sexual freedom in late 19th-century London. In the summer of 1894, John Addington and Henry Ellis begin writing a book arguing that homosexuality, which is a crime at the time, is a natural, harmless variation of human sexuality. Though they have never met, John and Henry both live in London with their wives, Catherine and Edith, and in each marriage, there is a third party: John has a lover, a working-class man named Frank, and Edith spends almost as much time with her friend Angelica as she does with Henry. John and Catherine have three grown daughters and a long, settled marriage, over the course of which Catherine has tried to accept her husband's sexuality and her own role in life; Henry and Edith's marriage is intended to be a revolution in itself, an intellectual partnership that dismantles the traditional understanding of what matrimony means. Shortly before the book is to be published, Oscar Wilde is arrested. John and Henry must decide whether to go on, risking social ostracism and imprisonment, or to give up the project for their own safety and the safety of the people they love. A richly detailed, powerful, and visceral novel about love, sex, and the struggle for a better world, The New Life brilliantly asks: "What's worth jeopardizing in the name of progress?" ( The New York Times Book Review , Editors' Choice).

LC Classification NumberPR6103.R465N49 2024