{"product_id":"interestings-book-meg-wolitzer-9781594632341","title":"The Interestings","description":"\u003cb\u003eRemarkable . . . With this book  Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA victory . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Interestings \u003c\/i\u003esecures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's.--\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(A) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling novel by Meg Wolitzer that has been called genius (\u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e), wonderful (\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e), ambitious (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e), and a page-turner (\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e), which \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003esays is among the ranks of books like Jonathan Franzen's \u003ci\u003eFreedom\u003c\/i\u003e and Jeffrey Eugenides \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Plot\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In \u003ci\u003eThe Interestings\u003c\/i\u003e, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules's now-married best friends, become shockingly successful--true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, \u003ci\u003eThe Interestings\u003c\/i\u003e explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49559010181393,"sku":"CIN1594632340G","price":5.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49562630717713,"sku":"GOR006261311","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50004590231825,"sku":"CIN1594632340A","price":4.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50419818266897,"sku":"GOR011138011","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50556550250769,"sku":"GOR006330785","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51038248010001,"sku":"NIN9781594632341","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51860231880977,"sku":"GOR008029115","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52107077550353,"sku":"CIN1594632340VG","price":4.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1594632340.jpg?v=1751119292","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/interestings-book-meg-wolitzer-9781594632341","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}