We Are Not Ourselves [electronic resource]
Thomas, Matthew2014
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LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 'A long gorgeous epic, full of love and life and caring ... one of the best novels you'll read this year' New York Times 'It's all here: how we live, how we love, how we die, how we carry on ... It's humbling and heartening to read a book this good' Joshua Ferris The product of a stormy upbringing in an Irish Catholic enclave of New York City, Eileen craves stability. Coming of age in the early Sixties, she meets and marries a young scientist named Edmund Leary. But while Eileen wants more for her family, Ed won't give up teaching for a better-paid job. Inadvertently Eileen starts to climb her own career ladder in nursing. She pushes Ed into finding a new home, but it becomes clear that his resistance is part of a deeply troubling psychological shift. In this masterful debut, Matthew Thomas paints a sprawling, profoundly sympathetic portrait of a family coping with slow-burning tragedy. 'We Are Not Ourselves' is a grand testament to our deepest hopes and most human frailties.
Main title:
We Are Not Ourselves [electronic resource] / Matthew Thomas
Author:
Thomas, Matthew, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2014
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Awards:
The New York Times Best Seller List (The New York Times)
ISBN:
9780007548224
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2309527