Writers & Lovers: A Novel
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3.6 • 70 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
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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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A struggling writer confronts grief, student debt, and complicated relationships in Lily King’s spellbinding novel. Casey just can’t seem to catch a break. After the sudden death of her mother and a messy breakup with a flaky married man, Casey’s life—which consists mostly of going to and from the high-end restaurant she serves at, plus pounding away at a novel she can’t seem to finish—is very much in limbo. When she meets the handsome and talented writer Oscar Colton, her life is suddenly infused with hope, but there’s one problem: She’s already dating his student, Silas. King really makes us care about this awkward love triangle and, in particular, her witty, self-deprecating heroine. The talented Stacey Glemboski narrates this audiobook, even singing along with the characters when necessary. Writers & Lovers is a wonderful listen.
Customer Reviews
Slow Burn
The first half is a buildup to the second half and it’s worth it if you like digging into people’s lives. It’s a deep dive into grief, relationships, what it’s like to be a restaurant server and ultimately finding yourself.