Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Jill Eisenstadt

Editorial

Back Bay Books

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.6x14x2 cm

Peso

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9780316316880

Categorías

Ficción: general y literaria
Novelas sobre la vida familiar

Swell: A Novel (en Inglés)

Jill Eisenstadt (Autor) · Back Bay Books · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Swell: A Novel (en Inglés)"

Thirty years after From Rockaway ("A great first novel", Harper's Bazaar), Jill Eisenstadt returns with a darkly funny new work of fiction that exposes a city and a family at their most vulnerable. When Sue Glassman's family needs a new home, Sue relents, after years of resisting, and agrees to convert to Judaism. In return, Sue's father-in-law, Sy, buys the family -- Sue, Dan, and their two daughters -- a capacious but ramshackle beachfront house in Rockaway, Queens, a world away from the Glassmans' cramped Tribeca apartment. The catch? Sy is moving in, too. And the house is haunted. On the weekend of Sue's conversion party, ninety-year-old Rose, who (literally) got away with murder on the premises years earlier, shows up uninvited. Towing a suitcase-sized pocketbook, having escaped an assisted living facility in Forest Hills, Rose seems intent on moving back in. Enter neighbor Tim -- formerly Timmy (see From Rockaway), a former lifeguard, former firefighter, and reformed alcoholic -- who feels, for reasons even he can't explain, inordinately protective of the Glassmans. The collective nervous breakdown occasioned by Rose's return swells to operatic heights in a novel that charms and surprises on every page as it unflinchingly addresses the perils of living in a world rife with uncertainty.