Writers & Lovers

by King, Lily
ISBN: 9780802148544
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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

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Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with another instant New York Times bestseller: 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's 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.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: King, Lily
  • ISBN: 9780802148544
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.10 x 1.20
  • Number Of Pages: 336
  • Publication Year: 2021

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  • "She wrote it for all of us, our heart breaks and recoveries and our friendships that might just last.” #summerreading

    Jennifer N. - 5 years 9 months ago

    I woke up this one this morning wondering if my mom and dad still had their matching Crested Butte T-shirts from their honeymoon. I hadn’t thought about those T-shirts for a long time. A random thought…Until I read the protagonist’s postcard: “Welcome to Crested Butte, it says at the bottom. Crested Butte?” My random thought, a premonition: an apt description of Lily King’s novel Writers & Lovers. It’s a story about loss—loss of a mother, sister, wife—how we drive across the country, write the Great American novel, or serve chicken sticks and cucumber slices to lament. The Nurse Ellen liturgy brought me to tears. I fell in love with Casey’s character like I do many of my best friends--initial dismissal to unconditional fidelity. Casey’s complex personality can be summarized in a few short sentences: “‘What have you been up to?’ I scan my life since he left town: Bad moles. Burnt cervix. Oscar. ‘I finished my novel.’ It’s all I got… ‘I am interested in—‘Feeling normal. Not having cancer. Getting out of debt. ‘Books, I guess.’” As an educator, Casey’s interview resonated with and reminded me of the reason I became a teacher: “I would want kids to talk and write about how the book makes them feel, what it reminds them of, if it changed their thoughts about anything. I’d have them keep a journal and have them free write after they read each assignment. What did this make you think about? That’s what I want to know…You want to push them further in, so they can feel everything the author tried so hard to create for them…An author is trying to give you an immersive adventure...It’s a particular kind of pleasure, of intimacy, loving a book with someone.” This is why we read aloud to our students of all ages! For the bond that shared experience creates. For the life long love of literacy sparked by the passion of a reader and passed like a flame from soul to soul until the world is ablaze with story. “They aren’t stories, she told me, they’re hard little polyps I’m trying to remove from my brain...I don’t write because I think I have something to say. I write because if I don’t, everything feels even worse...What has been constant and steady in my life is the novel I’ve been writing. This has been my home, the place I can always retreat to. The place I could sometimes even feel powerful...The place where I am most myself. Maybe some of you...have found this place already. Maybe some of you will find it years from now. My hope is that some of you will find it for the first time today by writing.” Lily King’s Writers & Lovers feels “like she wrote it for all of us, our heart breaks and recoveries and our friendships that might just last.” Oscar’s Verdict: “If he likes what he’s hearing, his hands will move to his knees. And if he doesn’t, his arms remain crossed over his chest. And if he really loves it, his fingers will be laced together in his lap by the end.” Your fingers will be laced together forever after turning the final page of Writer’s & Lovers. #summerreading