Writers & Lovers

A Novel

De: Lily King

Narrado por: Stacey Glemboski

Duración: 8 h y 14 m

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“I loved this book not just from the first chapter or the first page but from the first paragraph… The voice is just so honest and riveting and insightful about creativity and life.” —Curtis Sittenfeld

Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman.

Blindsided by her mother’s sudden death and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she has been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures even more. Casey’s fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink.

Writers & Lovers follows Casey―a smart and achingly vulnerable protagonist―in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis. Written with King’s trademark humor, heart, and intelligence, Writers & Lovers is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.

©2020 Lily King (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing

Authentic characters

I felt like I could relate to Casey as if she were someone I once knew. The narrator captures her spirit beautifully.

First book in years! Book Club Belair.

Really liked the reader, Glemboski. Alot of the story she was depressed but true to life for a writer. I love the happy endings as we all know life evolves!

Let’s just say it’s not what I expected

Sometimes it’s good when the story surprises you ! But this surprise was .....”that’s it, that’s the end, they just said the end and the credits are rolling, ok this is weird.” If you enjoy being let down and maybe dumbfounded, you should read this book. Good airport read maybe?

Writer's and Lovers

Loved it! I could relate! Characters very realistic. I was sorry when the book ended!

fabulous detail, credible surprises!

I thoroughly enjoyed the expressive detail in King's writing, and the turns in the story that were often less than obvious, but never disappointing - believable and well developed. The author effectively helps us step back and understand the arc of the story.

Beautiful

A beautiful portrayal of womanhood, grief, youth, and genuine characters who make mistakes. I won’t forget this book anytime soon

A refreshing heartfelt story

This book was a refreshing change. Author made me feel like we all have our own unique problems.The problems we have may not always work out the way we think but in some way they just may work out better than we thought they would. we all are aa little crazy

Unexpectedly AMAZING

At first when I started reading this book, I was confused and sad because my mom died unexpectedly too. I didn’t think I had the courage to read or listen to this book. But it turns out this was exactly the unexpected thing that I needed. The storytelling was beautiful, thoughtful, deliberate and real. I don’t want to give the ending away. But I too today; am an a fearless blue giraffe for the first time in a long time. Lily, thank you for your beautiful, honest, raw look at life and how one event can change the direction of your life from unimaginably painful into unimaginably beautiful and hopeful.

Loved it!

Such beautiful writing! I really enjoyed this one and was sad when it was over.

Lackluster story

This was a struggle to finish. I didn't really care about the story until the last hour & a half. If it weren't for this being the book picked by my book club, I probably wouldn't have finished it. We all agreed, the last 45 minutes of story were the best.