All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg (English) Paperback Book

Description: All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg An unforgettable novel of family secrets from New York Times bestselling author of The Middlesteins - now in paperback. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Victor Tuchman - a power-hungry real estate developer and all-round bad man - is finally on his deathbed. His daughter Alex can finally unearth the secret of who he really was. She travels to New Orleans to be with her family, but mostly to interrogate her tightlipped mother, Barbra.As Barbra fends off Alexs unrelenting questions, she reflects on her tumultuous married life. Meanwhile Gary, Alexs brother, is incommunicado, trying to get his movie career off the ground in Los Angeles. And Garys wife, Twyla, is having a nervous breakdown, bursting into crying fits in drug stores. Each family must figure out a way to move forward - with one another, for themselves and for the sake of their children. Author Biography Jami Attenberg is the author of a story collection, Instant Love, and the novels The Kept Man, The Melting Season, All Grown Up, Saint Mazie and The Middlesteins, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. She has been published in sixteen languages. She lives in New Orleans. Follow her @jamiattenberg Review A family epic thats pointed and funny, touching and true: in All This Could Be Yours, Jami Attenberg captures the shades of light and dark that swirl among his people as a patriarch lays dying; the anxieties of our current era; the breaths and beats of New Orleans. -- Jean Hannah EdelsteinA great novel about an irredeemable man and the family he nearly destroyed in pursuing his desires without remorse. -- Roxane GayA deep dive into the darker side of family bonds, All This Could Be Yours is another compulsively readable novel by Jami Attenberg ... This is a parable for our times. * Observer *Gets so deep into the psyches of her characters that the story ends up seeming electric with ruin, and with possible resurrection. * The New York Times *An ambitious and utterly delectable novel about families and their secrets that opens up, pleasurably, like a set of nesting dolls. -- Kelly Link, author of Get in TroubleJami Attenbergs work is so deeply attuned to humans and our imperfect attempts to love each other ... Attenberg handles it all with an expert touch and a keen sense of what, despite all the sadness and secrets, keeps people connected, striving for moments of beauty and tenderness in a dark world -- Emma Cline, author of The GirlsVersatile, earthbound, and unforgiving ... a comic blend of messy family drama. * Vulture *No one understands the contradictions of the human heart and how our grace and our failures reverberate through our families better than Jami Attenberg. And no one writes about our grace and failures with humor and compassion better than her either. -- Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, BluebirdA dark, deliciously captivating look into the way a toxic patriarch can poison everyone around him ... There are no easy resolutions offered here, but thats as it should be. * Nylon *A brutal and beautiful story of familial dysfunction ... Attenberg doesnt flinch from digging into lifes messiness, pressing gently but resolutely into wounds to see what oozes out. * USA Today *As family secrets unspool, the years of resentment and anger burn off in this tightly drawn novel ... Attenbergs unflinching ability to create utterly vulnerable and vicious characters, locked in a cycle of want and need, demand your attention...arguably Attenbergs best novel to date. * New York Observer *Unflinching ... a devastating dissection of the impact of bad parenting * Sunday Times * Promotional An unforgettable novel of family secrets from New York Times bestselling author of The Middlesteins - now in paperback Long Description An unforgettable novel of family secrets from New York Times bestselling author of The Middlesteins - now in paperback. Victor Tuchman - a power-hungry real estate developer and all-round bad man - is finally on his deathbed. His daughter Alex can finally unearth the secret of who he really was. She travels to New Orleans to be with her family, but mostly to interrogate her tightlipped mother, Barbra. As Barbra fends off Alexs unrelenting questions, she reflects on her tumultuous married life. Meanwhile Gary, Alexs brother, is incommunicado, trying to get his movie career off the ground in Los Angeles. And Garys wife, Twyla, is having a nervous breakdown, bursting into crying fits in drug stores. Each family must figure out a way to move forward - with one another, for themselves and for the sake of their children. Review Text A family epic thats pointed and funny, touching and true: in All This Could Be Yours, Jami Attenberg captures the shades of light and dark that swirl among his people as a patriarch lays dying; the anxieties of our current era; the breaths and beats of New Orleans. Promotional "Headline" An unforgettable novel of family secrets from New York Times bestselling author of The Middlesteins - now in paperback Details ISBN1788163265 Author Jami Attenberg Publisher Profile Books Ltd Year 2021 ISBN-10 1788163265 ISBN-13 9781788163262 Publication Date 2021-03-04 Pages 304 Language English Format Paperback DEWEY 813.6 UK Release Date 2021-03-04 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations n/a AU Release Date 2021-03-04 Imprint Serpents Tail Edition Description Main Alternative 9781782835905 Audience General NZ Release Date 2021-05-17 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131333093;

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