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The Interestings, by Meg Wolitzer
Wolitzers' novel follows the lives of 6 teens from 1974 to the present. Jules, Ash, Cathy, Goodman, Jonah, and Ethan forge life-long friendships at Spirit - in- the - Woods arts camp. Friendship, marriage, success, talent, envy, self- fulfillment, growth, change, & nostalgia, are prominent themes throughout The Interestings. I found the well- developed characters likable yet deeply flawed. Wolitzer is a gifted writer and observer of human nature, who writes with ...more
Wolitzers' novel follows the lives of 6 teens from 1974 to the present. Jules, Ash, Cathy, Goodman, Jonah, and Ethan forge life-long friendships at Spirit - in- the - Woods arts camp. Friendship, marriage, success, talent, envy, self- fulfillment, growth, change, & nostalgia, are prominent themes throughout The Interestings. I found the well- developed characters likable yet deeply flawed. Wolitzer is a gifted writer and observer of human nature, who writes with ...more
This is a well written character-driven novel about what happens to friendships formed during adolescence when once equal teenagers grow up and find themselves on widely divergent rungs of the socio-economic ladder. Jules, Ash, Goodman, Jonah and Ethan all meet at a summer camp for the arts in the 1970's and form group they call "The Interestings" because that's how they see themselves. As the yeas go by, most of the group drift into non-artistic fields, but Ash and Ethan who marry, become spect
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Apr 26, 2014
Sandi*
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