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  • I hate to abandon a book, but this had several dull characters and the storyline skipped around too much for my taste. I just don't have it in me to force myself to finish it!

    

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자신에게 명성을 안겨줄 근사한 아이디어에 늘 목말라하는 방송 PD Danielle, 유명인의 딸이자 부유한 저널리스트인 Marina, 매력적인 프리랜서 서평 작가 Julius, 세 주인공이 펼치는 성공과 삶의 의미를 향한 치열한 이야기. 이들의 사회적 교류와 가족사가 겹쳐지면서 흥미로움을 더해간다.

특정 시간과 공간에 대한 섬세한 초상화이자, 단 하루에 일어난 일이 어떻게 모든 것을 영원히 바꾸어 놓을 수 있는 지에 대한 강렬한 소묘이다.

Edward St. Aubyn 의 Mother's Milk: A Novel 와 함께 2006년 부커상을 공동 수상했다.


From a writer "of near-miraculous perfection" (The New York Times Book Review) and "a literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation" (San Francisco Chronicle), The Emperor's Children is a dazzling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way-and not-in New York City. There is beautiful, sophisticated Marina Thwaite-an "It" girl finishing her first book; the daughter ofMurray Thwaite,celebratedintellectual andjournalist-and her two closest friends from Brown, Danielle, a quietly appealing television producer, and Julius, acash-strapped freelance critic. The delicious complications that arise among them become dangerous when Murray's nephew, Frederick "Bootie" Tubb, an idealistic college dropout determined to make his mark, comes to town. As the skies darken, it is Bootie's unexpected decisions-and their stunning, heartbreaking outcome-that will change each of their lives forever. A richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune-of innocence and experience, seduction and self-invention; of ambition, including literary ambition; of glamour, disaster, and promise-The Emperor's Children is a tour de force that brings to life a city, a generation, and the way we live in this moment. [예스24 제공]

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