True Believers: A Novel
分類: 图书,进口原版,Audio book(有声读物),
品牌: Kurt Andersen
基本信息出版社:Random House Audio (2012年7月10日)CD正文语种:英语ISBN:0449011801条形码:9780449011805商品重量:227 gASIN:0449011801您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介InTrue Believers,Kurt Andersen—the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author ofHeydayandTurn of the Century—delivers his most powerful and moving novel yet. Dazzling in its wit and effervescent insight, this kaleidoscopic tour de force of cultural observation and seductive storytelling alternates between the 1960s and the present—and indelibly captures the enduring impact of that time on the ways we live now.
Karen Hollander is a celebrated attorney who recently removed herself from consideration for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her reasons have their roots in 1968—an episode she’s managed to keep secret for more than forty years. Now, with the imminent publication of her memoir, she’s about to let the world in on that shocking secret—as soon as she can track down the answers to a few crucial last questions.
As junior-high-school kids back in the early sixties, Karen and her two best friends, Chuck and Alex, roamed suburban Chicago on their bikes looking for intrigue and excitement. Inspired by the exotic romance of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels, they acted out elaborate spy missions pitting themselves against imaginary Cold War villains. As friendship carries them through childhood and on to college—in a polarized late-sixties America riven by war and race as well as sex, drugs, and rock and roll—the bad guys cease to be the creatures of make-believe. Caught up in the fervor of that extraordinary and uncanny time, they find themselves swept into a dangerous new game with the highest possible stakes.
Today, only a handful of people are left who know what happened. As Karen reconstructs the past and reconciles the girl she was then with the woman she is now, finally sharing pieces of her secret past with her national-security-cowboy boyfriend and Occupy-activist granddaughter, the power of memory and history and luck become clear. A resonant coming-of-age story and a thrilling political mystery,True Believersis Kurt Andersen’s most ambitious novel to date, introducing a brilliant, funny, and irresistible new heroine to contemporary fiction.媒体推荐Praise for Kurt Andersen’sHeyday
“A joyful, wild gallop through a joyful, wild time to be an American.”—Vanity Fair
“A major historical work, of lore and wisdom, irony and humor . . . a boisterous, coast-to-coast portrait of our nation’s adolescence.”—Los Angeles Times
“Extravagantly vivid characters . . . There is something moving, a stirring spirit, in the energy of its amazement.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Exhilarating . . . The last four decades or so have probably produced more quality historical novels than the previous century and a half [including] Doctorow’sRagtime[and] Vidal’sLincoln. . . .Heydaydeserves instant acceptance into their ranks.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Hard to put down . . . ripping plot twists . . . riveting historical details . . . You feel a little like you’ve found a long-lost literary treasure. [Grade:] A.”—Entertainment Weekly
“A pleasure, pure and simple, [with a] slam-bang finale.”—Newsweek
