Скачать или смотреть NYSL: Meg Wolitzer in Conversation with Delia Ephron, The Interestings

The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge.

Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.

Jeffrey Eugenides says, "Like Virginia Woolf in The Waves, Meg Wolitzer gives us the full picture here, charting her characters' lives from the self-dramatizing of adolescence, though the resignation of middle age, to the attainment of a wisdom that holds all the intensities of life in a single, sustained chord, much like this book itself. The wit, intelligence, and deep feeling of Wolitzer's writing are extraordinary and The Interestings brings her achievement, already so steadfast and remarkable, to an even higher level."

Meg Wolitzer's previous novels include The Wife, The Position, The Ten-Year Nap, and The Uncoupling.

Delia Ephron is a bestselling author, screenwriter, and playwright. Her work includes the movies You've Got Mail and Hanging Up (based on her novel) and the books Frannie in Pieces, How to Eat Like a Child, and most recently The Lion is In.