Everything Matters!
Author: Currie, Ron
ISBN: 9780143117513
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 27 Jul 2010
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;Pquot;Startlingly talented . . . he survives the inevitable, apt comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and writes in a tenderly mordant voice all his own.Pquot; -Janet Maslin, Plt;iPgt;The New York TimesPlt;/iPgt; Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt; In this novel rich in character, Junior Thibodeau grows up in rural Maine in a time of Atari, baseball cards, pop Catholicism, and cocaine. He also knows something no one else knows-neither his exalted parents, nor his baseball-savant brother, nor the love of his life (she doesnP#39;t believe him anyway): The world will end when he is thirty-six. While Junior searches for meaning in a doomed world, his loved ones tell an all-American family saga of fathers and sons, blinding romance, lost love, and reconciliation-culminating in one final triumph that reconfigures the universe. A tour de force of storytelling, Plt;iPgt;Everything Matters!Plt;/iPgt; is a genre-bending potpourri of alternative history, sci-fi, and the great American tale in the tradition of John Irving and Margaret Atwood.
ISBN: 9780143117513
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 27 Jul 2010
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;Pquot;Startlingly talented . . . he survives the inevitable, apt comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and writes in a tenderly mordant voice all his own.Pquot; -Janet Maslin, Plt;iPgt;The New York TimesPlt;/iPgt; Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt; In this novel rich in character, Junior Thibodeau grows up in rural Maine in a time of Atari, baseball cards, pop Catholicism, and cocaine. He also knows something no one else knows-neither his exalted parents, nor his baseball-savant brother, nor the love of his life (she doesnP#39;t believe him anyway): The world will end when he is thirty-six. While Junior searches for meaning in a doomed world, his loved ones tell an all-American family saga of fathers and sons, blinding romance, lost love, and reconciliation-culminating in one final triumph that reconfigures the universe. A tour de force of storytelling, Plt;iPgt;Everything Matters!Plt;/iPgt; is a genre-bending potpourri of alternative history, sci-fi, and the great American tale in the tradition of John Irving and Margaret Atwood.
