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Wellness

A novel
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
624 Seiten
Englisch
Penguin Random Houseerschienen am19.09.2023INT
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH S BOOK CLUB PICK The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about a modern marriage and the bonds that keep people together. Mining the absurdities of contemporary society, Wellness reimagines the love story with a healthy dose of insight, irony, and heart.

"A stunning novel about the stories that we tell about our lives and our loves, and how we sustain relationships throughout time it's beyond remarkable, both funny and heartbreaking, sometimes on the same page. NPR


When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty '90s Chicago art scene, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to suburban married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter the often-baffling pursuits of health and happiness from polyamorous would-be suitors to home-renovation hysteria.

For the first time, Jack and Elizabeth struggle to recognize each other, and the no-longer-youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons, from unfulfilled career ambitions to childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process, Jack and Elizabeth must undertake separate, personal excavations, or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other.mehr
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KlappentextNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH S BOOK CLUB PICK The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about a modern marriage and the bonds that keep people together. Mining the absurdities of contemporary society, Wellness reimagines the love story with a healthy dose of insight, irony, and heart.

"A stunning novel about the stories that we tell about our lives and our loves, and how we sustain relationships throughout time it's beyond remarkable, both funny and heartbreaking, sometimes on the same page. NPR


When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty '90s Chicago art scene, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to suburban married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter the often-baffling pursuits of health and happiness from polyamorous would-be suitors to home-renovation hysteria.

For the first time, Jack and Elizabeth struggle to recognize each other, and the no-longer-youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons, from unfulfilled career ambitions to childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process, Jack and Elizabeth must undertake separate, personal excavations, or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-5247-1258-7
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum19.09.2023
Erstverkaufstag19.09.2023
AuflageINT
Seiten624 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht790 g
Illustrationen9 PHOTOGRAPHS IN TEXT
Artikel-Nr.60289327
Rubriken
GenreRomane Hardcover

Inhalt/Kritik

Kritik
A hilarious and moving exploration of a modern marriage that astounds in its breadth and intimacy. Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half

Wellness is such a beautiful, sometimes sad, sometimes satirical but most of all honest book about the many people a person becomes the way a life, in time, inevitably upends itself. A love story of dislodged chronology, Nathan Hill s brilliant interrogation of a single relationship spiderwebs out into almost every facet of our contemporary anxieties. Few writers working today have dissected, with such a sharp scalpel, the fundamental paradox of modern American life: this hopelessly broken need to fix what may not need fixing, to reach with utter desperation for a version of better that may not be better at all. Read Wellness with caution: it lays so much of our little self-deceptions bare. Omar El Akkad, author of American War

Nathan Hill has synthesized about a hundred years of that distinctly American delusion called self-improvement, and Wellness is the whip smart and gently comic result. Epic in scope, domestic in scale, it s a book that defies anyone to read it and willingly pick up a dumbbell or worry about counting steps ever again. Hill has released you, America, and his book will leave you not only fortified but amazed. Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End

Wellness is one of the funniest, saddest, smartest novels I ve ever read. In his portrait of one foundering marriage, Nathan Hill has encapsulated the pathologies and possibilities of our troubled era. With his razor-sharp satire and heartbreaking pathos, his stylistic virtuosity and human warmth, Hill has written both a propulsive page-turner and an artistic achievement of the highest order. I didn t think I could love a book more than The Nix until I read Wellness. It's a flat-out masterpiece." Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Ambitious, deeply engrossing, whip-smart and ultimately heartbreaking, Nathan Hill s Wellness is all this and much more. Richard Russo, author of the North Bath Trilogy

Astutely observed, hilariously satirical . . . Hill s prose is radiant and ravishing throughout this saturated, intricately honeycombed novel of delving cogitation as he evokes the wonders of the prairie and the city, and the ever-perplexing folly, anguish, and beauty of the human condition. Booklist (starred review)

Hill blends a family chronicle with cultural critique in his expansive and surprisingly tender latest . . . This stunning novel of ideas never loses sight of its humanity. Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Warmhearted . . . A bittersweet novel of love gained, lost, and regained over the course of decades. Kirkus Reviewsmehr

Autor


Nathan Hill, geboren 1978, lebt mit seiner Frau in Naples, Florida. Seine Erzählungen erschienen in zahlreichen Magazinen und Zeitungen, sie waren nominiert für den Pushcart und den Barthelme Preis. Sein erster Roman »Geister« war ein internationaler Bestseller und wurde in über zwanzig Sprachen übersetzt. Auch »Wellness« ist weit vor Erscheinen in den USA schon in 14 Länder lizenziert.


Uve Teschner, geboren 1973, studierte in Potsdam Musik mit den Schwerpunkten Gesang und Gitarre. Seit 2007 arbeitet er als freiberuflicher Sprecher und hat sich vor allem mit Lesungen von Thrillern und Krimis einen Namen gemacht. Für Hörbuch Hamburg liest er Bestsellerautoren wie Chris Carter und Jo Nesbø. Aber er fühlt sich auch in anderen Genres zu Hause und interpretiert Werke der zeitgenössischen Literatur, Fantasy oder Science Fiction.