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The winner of many prestigious literary prizes- including the Orange-Valerie Martin also penned the modern classic Mary Reilly. Here she re-creates the vibrant world of 1970s theater in New York City to craft the tale of Edward Day, an ambitious young actor whose life changes at a bawdy party on the Jersey shore.
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Summary
Summary
One of the 2009 New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books for Fiction
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“A triumph of her unique art…Martin writes with amplitude, precision, grace, and wit…It’s a bravura performance.”
—Margaret Atwood, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Blind Assassin
“A self-contained gem…I couldn’t help marveling at Martin’s ability not to make a mistake—to make me feel absolutely present at those sometimes quite dramatic scenes, and yet to keep all those thematic balls in the air, to juggle her motifs ever so gracefully, to honor the mysteriousness of her subject, but make those mysteries crystal clear…Valerie Martin is one of the best novelists we have.” —Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Thousand Acres
“Martin builds an ominous tension almost Hitchcockian in its trenchant and perverse knowledge about the human animal…In a Martin universe, you know you’re going to get hit and you know you can’t possibly see from which angle the blow will come, but the novelist makes it dark fun to guess.” —New York Times Book Review
“Chilling…Edward is [Martin’s] most brilliant feat of literary ventriloquism to date…It’s a testament to Martin’s skill and empathy (a quality Edward entirely lacks) that we don’t despise her blinkered protagonist but feel sorry for him, as you would for anyone with an incurable condition.” —Washington Post
“Subtle but intense…The intimacy of Edward’s narrative voice is one of the novel’s most startling achievements. We gradually cease to like our main character, yet we stagger after him, captivated. Martin’s symbolic substructure—layer of repetition and mirroring—is so skillfully embedded in her story that we feel its effects without realizing it, like an understated but persuasive musical score.” —Los Angeles Times
“A taut and psychologically penetrating drama, played out against a vivid backdrop of the New York theater world of the 1970s.” —Booklist
Author
Author Bio: Valerie Martin
Valerie Martin, winner of the Orange Prize, is the author of numerous acclaimed adult novels, including Property and The Confessions of Edward Day. She lives in Millbrook, New York.
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| Available Formats : | Digital Download, CD |
| Runtime: | 8.58 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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