Evenings and Weekends A Novel
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Harper Collins Publ. USA
Fr. 39.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
02.07.2024
Verlag
Harper Collins Publ. USASeitenzahl
344
Maße (L/B/H)
23.6/16.5/3.2 cm
Gewicht
469 g
Farbe
Dunkelbraun / Karamell
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-06-331997-4
“This is such a love story to cities & people & heartbreaks, death & loss. It's not at all corny, it's smart. But I just finished it & it made me cry.” — Eileen Myles
"Signals the arrival of a novelist sure to resonate with young people who endeavor to make intimate connections." —The Washington Post
For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a stunning debut that follows a vibrant multi-generational cast of characters through a London heatwave as their simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over a feverish, life-changing weekend.
Summer in London stops for no one. Not the half-naked drunks and stoners, the bachelorette parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried cigarettes. It’s June 2019, and everyone has converged on the city’s parks, beer gardens, and street corners to revel in the collective joys of being alive.
Everyone but Maggie. She’s 30, pregnant, and broke. Faced with moving back to the town she fought to escape, she’s wondering if having a baby with boyfriend Ed will be the last spontaneous act of her life. Ed, meanwhile, is trying to run from his past with Maggie’s best friend Phil and harboring secret dreams of his own.
Phil hates his office job and is living for the weekend, while falling for his housemate, Keith. But there’s a problem: Keith has a boyfriend and there might not be room for three people in the relationship. Then there’s Rosaleen, Phil’s mother, who’s tired of feeling like a side character in her own life. She’s just been diagnosed with cancer and is travelling to London to tell Phil, if she can ever get hold of him.
As Saturday night approaches, all their lives are set to change forever. Temperatures are soaring and the weekend is about to begin…
Strikingly heartfelt, sexually charged, and disarmingly comic, Oisín McKenna’s debut is a mesmerizing dive into the soul of a city and a searing look at what it takes to build a life there.
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The perfect summer read
I absolutely loved this book. Set over a hot summer weekend in London, Evenings and Weekends follows a cast of interconnected characters as they navigate the struggles of everyday life. It’s beautifully written, full of warmth and humanity, and feels like a love letter to London. The city is so vividly brought to life that it almost becomes a character itself. A perfect summer read. -
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I read it because of the cover and it became my favourite book of 2024. This book is a love letter to London, a love letter to humanity and honesty and has some of the best dialogue I‘ve read in a long time. It is full of real love, friendship, family and queerness. It just blew me away! Read this book if you love character driven books, you will love it, I‘m sure. ☀️