Breakable You by Brian Morton
Remarkable . . . Morton] conjures up lives so vivid the reader mourns their passing. The New York Times Book ReviewIn this heartbreakingly beautiful novel, Brian Morton gives us four complicated, passionate people whose lives are tested by tragedy.Breakable You is the story of Maud, a brilliant but fragile graduate student; her father, Adam, a novelist hungry for greater fame; Eleanor, his former wife, a psychologist struggling to reinvent herself in middle age; and Maud s new lover, Samir, an Arab American intellectual in mourning for his lost daughter.A novel that is both clear-eyed and deeply compassionate, Breakable You examines what we do when life gives us more than we think we can bear.
A literary theft, a death and the sparking of desire make for a tumultuous year in the lives of four New Yorkers fumbling toward belated self-discovery . . . In this polished, affecting novel, their stories intertwine and uplift: As Maud, the book's tender heart, reflects, striving is 'the law of life.' People
Morton is the rare writer equally invested in people and ideas . . . [He] creates some of the most complex and real female characters of any writer.--San Francisco Chronicle
BRIAN MORTON is the author of three previous novels, including Starting Out in the Evening, which won the Koret Jewish Book Award and was a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award, and A Window Across the River, which was a Today Book Club selection. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and New York University and lives in New York.Reading Group Guide available at www.HarcourtBooks.com.
Morton, Brian: - Brian Morton was born in Paisley and grew up in New Orleans-on-Clyde, aka Dunoon, where he acquired a lifelong passion for jazz. He taught at university before spending ten years working on The Times and its supplements; he then became a freelance writer and broadcaster, and has had an illustrious career as an arts and music commentator on BBC Radio Scotland and on BBC Radio 3. His publications include The Penguin Guide To Jazz which he co-authors with Richard Cook.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780151011926 |
| ISBN 10 | 0151011923 |
| Title | Breakable You |
| Author | Brian Morton |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| Year published | 2006-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 361 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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