Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson audiobook

Ten Thousand Saints

By Eleanor Henderson
Read by Steven Kaplan

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11.09 Hours • Unabridged
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    ISBN: 9780062072795

“Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination.  The resulting novel, Ten Thousand Saints, is the best thing I’ve read in a long time.” —Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder A sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City during the late 1980s, Ten Thousand Saints triumphantly heralds the arrival a remarkable new writer. Eleanor Henderson  makes a truly stunning debut with a novel that is part coming of age, part coming to terms, immediately joining the ranks of The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude. Adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.

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Summary

Summary

A New York Times bestseller

A 2011 Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Prize for First Fiction Finalist

Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award

A 2011 New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the Year

One of the 2011 New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books for Fiction

Selected for the July 2011 Indie Next List

“Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination.  The resulting novel, Ten Thousand Saints, is the best thing I’ve read in a long time.”
—Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder

A sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City during the late 1980s, Ten Thousand Saints triumphantly heralds the arrival a remarkable new writer. Eleanor Henderson  makes a truly stunning debut with a novel that is part coming of age, part coming to terms, immediately joining the ranks of The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude. Adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent, which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination. The resulting novel…is the best thing I’ve read in a long time.” —Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder
“Ten Thousand Saints is funny, touching, artistic, surprising, lovely, eye-opening, and very, very wise.” —Arthur Phillips, New York Times bestselling author of The Song Is You
“Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every scene, every perspective, every fleeting impression, every impulse and desire and bit of emotional detritus. She is never ironic or underwhelmed; her preferred mode is fierce, devoted and elegiac.” —New York Times
“An irresistibly rich and engrossing novel…poignant, complex…Henderson brilliantly evokes the gritty energy of New York City in the ’80s, and the violent euphoria of the music scene. The hard-edged settings highlight the touching vulnerability of young characters.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
“Henderson proves herself to be an expert ethnographer; her detail work is phenomenal…But her characterizations demonstrate Henderson’s greatest skill. Even the ones who receive comparatively little stage time are always precisely defined…Not all of these characters are particularly appealing, but they’re memorable, and Henderson’s affection for them is palpable.” —Washington Post
“I loved Ten Thousand Saints; again and again I was stopped cold by beautiful chapter-ending sentences. I remember this Manhattan, the Sunday matinees at CB’s, the rage over yuppies colonizing the East Village.” —Dean Wareham, lead singer of Galaxie 500 and Luna and author of Black Postcards

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Author Bio: Eleanor Henderson

Author Bio: Eleanor Henderson

Eleanor Henderson’s novel Ten Thousand Saints was named one of the Top 10 Books of the Year by the New York Times and was a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. An assistant professor of fiction writing at Ithaca College, she lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband and two sons.

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Available Formats : Digital Download
Runtime: 11.09
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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