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Joanna Rakoff
Kindle Edition | Pages: 512 pages Rating: 3.08 | 1139 Users | 250 Reviews
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| Title | : | A Fortunate Age |
| Author | : | Joanna Rakoff |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 512 pages |
| Published | : | June 18th 2015 by Bloomsbury Publishing (first published January 2009) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. New York. Contemporary |
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Living in crumbling Brooklyn apartments, holding down jobs as actors and writers and eschewing the middle-class sensibilities of their parents, graduates of the prestigious Oberlin College, Lil, Beth, Sadie, Emily, Dave and Tal believe they can have it all.When the group come together to celebrate a marriage,anything seems possible. But soon the reality of rent, marriage and family will test them all. For this fortunate age can't last for ever, and the group must face adulthood, whether they are ready for it or not.
Sprawling and richly drawn, A Fortunate Age traces the lives of the group during some of the most defining years of modern America – from the decadence of the dot com boom through to the sobering events of September 11 and the trailing years that followed – this brilliant, ambitious debut novel perfectly captures the hopes, anxieties and dreams of a generation.
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| Original Title: | A Fortunate Age ASIN B00VJSNUZ4 |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Beth Halpern, Emily, Sadie Peregrine, Lil, Tal, David Wade |
| Setting: | New York State(United States) |
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Ratings: 3.08 From 1139 Users | 250 ReviewsWeigh Up Of Books A Fortunate Age
This book was right in my wheelhouse-- next to medical memoirs and serial killer thrillers, I love nothing more than a big fat book that follows a group of friends over a period of years. I agree with some of the negative reviewers in that it was a bit hard keeping track of the characters, and some of them sort of disappeared halfway through, but I really liked the attention to the neighborhood detail (the park mommies, the yoga studios, the music scene), and also the very realistic dialog.
Ugh. I wanted to like this book! I like this genre (I enjoyed "the group" )--- and Rakoff can write. But this novel does not work. We get chapter after chapter of carefully written prose -- mostly descriptions of an individual character-- some of it lovely. And yet --the chapters don't really link together---the story is not cohesive -- there is no sense of who these people really are -- how deep/shallow their relationships with each other are --- and why we should care. I feel there is a novel
I read an advanced copy for a book club. For her first novel, it was extremely well written. I perhaps left me wanting more in the end....doesn't necessarily tie up lose ends but then again, this type of story was meant to elicit memories of your past groups of friends and how they have progressed into the future (or not progressed). Set in NYC, I can understand why the social and political climate was so important but honestly it made me feel like a complete idiot most of the time, like I was
I loved this book - I'm in the perfect demographic - the time frame this is set - from about 1998 - 2004 are the years I was going through my twenties as well, and I too had a "group" - I could relate so well to the relationships, the time frames, the shifting of lives from the shelter of college to the relative brutality of real life. I loved the pacing of the novel, the detailed snapshot of a day, a week, a few months with the characters, then the next chapter may flash forward a year, but it
The folks at Scribner are really excited by this debut novel. IndieNext is really excited about this book. Me--not so much actually. It's clear that Rakoff can tell a story and create dimensional characters--I will absolutely give her points for that. The problem is that there are too many stories and too many characters seen in too short of glimpses to ever get attached to them. This is a story of several college friends in the 8 or so years after college who all seem to be just hanging around
A Fortunate Age was an exhausting book to read. A group of friends from Oberlin all move to New York City after college. From the very beginning, I had a sense that these characters felt the world owed them something. They all seemed to be rather whiny. They were forced to grow up, in spite of themselves, and always seemed surprised when unprotected sex resulted in pregnancy, not working full time resulted in being poor (this was prior to the current economic crisis), and that not finishing a
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