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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller notes
- Features
- Autographed
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Type
- Novel
- Edition
- First Edition
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Signed
- Yes
- Inscribed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Personalized
- No
- Signed By
- Jami Attenberg
- Era
- 2010s
- ISBN
- 9781455507214
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10
1455507210
ISBN-13
9781455507214
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113108916
Product Key Features
Book Title
Middlesteins : a Novel
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Family Life, Literary, Jewish
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13.9 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-025990
Reviews
Jami Attenberg's comic-tragic portrait of The Middlesteins , a quirky midwestern Jewish family collapsing under burdens of betrayal, desire, and obesity, is delish., Attenberg writes with all the humor and vigor of Philip Roth but with the warmth and heart of Anne Tyler. The energy comes from Attenberg's exuberant prose, which makes this novel a joy to read.... The Middlesteins is literature at its finest, asking the tough, unanswerable questions about our modern life., Deftly comedic and acutely sensitive, Jami Attenberg confronts our profound hunger for meaning and love in The Middlesteins .... [This book] generates disturbing, hilarious and tender revelations., Jami Attenberg writes with startling honesty and haunting compassion about characters caught between desire and obligation. Blunt and beautifully written,The Middlesteinspeels back the layers of one family's struggle to hold together even as its members fall apart, examining the commitments and betrayals, the guilt and grievances, the wounds and recoveries. Told with great hope and humor, this is a novel about fear and forgiveness, blame and acceptance, the roles we yearn to escape, and the bonds that prove unbreakable. It's a wonderful book., The Middlesteins, the novel, is great literature: in lucid and lustrous prose, Jami Attenberg tells a flawlessly paced, profound story that is equally intimate and universal. And the Middlesteins, the family, are great company: warm, tragic, funny and so deeply, complexly, entirely human that I could almost swear I grew up down the street from them. I read Attenberg's book as voraciously as Edie Middlestein downs her surreptitious feasts, and now I'm insatiable for more from this brilliant author., Praise forThe Middlesteins: " The Middlesteins had me from its very first pages, but it wasn't until its final pages that I fully appreciated the range of Attenberg's sympathy and the artistry of her storytelling.", I couldn't help absolutely devouring The Middlesteins. This smorgasbord of a book about food, family, love, sex, and loss is like the Jewish The Corrections, yet menschier and with a heart--and it's hilarious!, Jami Attenberg has a gift for making you sympathize with each and every one of her characters. The result is a rich family portrait that's sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious, and gripping all the way through. The Middlesteins are every bit as complex and contradictory as your family, or mine. I'm still thinking about them long after I turned the final page., The Middlesteins is a truly original American novel, at once topical and universally timeless. Jami Attenberg has created a Midwestern Jewish family who are quintessentially familiar but fiercely, mordantly idiosyncratic. This novel will make you laugh, cry, cringe in recognition, and crave lamb-cumin noodles. This is a stunningly wonderful book., Expansive heart and sly wit... Throughout this poignant novel, the characters wrestle with two defining questions: What do we owe each other after a life together? What do we owe ourselves?, [Attenberg's] characters' thoughts-Richard and Benny in particular-seem utterly real, and her wry, observational humor often hits sideways rather than head-on. . . [A] wonderfully messy and layered family portrait., I couldn't help absolutely devouringThe Middlesteins. This smorgasbord of a book about food, family, love, sex, and loss is like the JewishThe Corrections, yet menschier and with a heart--and it's hilarious!, The Middlesteins is a tender, sad and funny look at a family and their mother. In fact, it's so readable, it's practically edible., With a wit that never mocks and a tenderness that never gushes, [Attenberg] renders this family's ordinary tragedies as something surprisingly affecting... Attenberg is superb at mocking the cliches of middle-class life by giving them the slightest turn to make people suddenly real and wholly sympathetic., The Middlesteinsis a truly original American novel, at once topical and universally timeless. Jami Attenberg has created a Midwestern Jewish family who are quintessentially familiar but fiercely, mordantly idiosyncratic. This novel will make you laugh, cry, cringe in recognition, and crave lamb-cumin noodles. This is a stunningly wonderful book., Funny, compassionate tragicomedy...notable for the nimble way it combines humor and pathos. Attenberg can be wry and sharply funny, but there's a tenderness in her portrayal of her outsized main character and her family., Praise forThe Middlesteins: "I couldn't help absolutely devouringThe Middlesteins. This smorgasbord of a book about food, family, love, sex, and loss is like the JewishThe Corrections, yet menschier and with a heart--and it's hilarious!", Jami Attenberg writes with startling honesty and haunting compassion about characters caught between desire and obligation. Blunt and beautifully written, The Middlesteins peels back the layers of one family's struggle to hold together even as its members fall apart, examining the commitments and betrayals, the guilt and grievances, the wounds and recoveries. Told with great hope and humor, this is a novel about fear and forgiveness, blame and acceptance, the roles we yearn to escape, and the bonds that prove unbreakable. It's a wonderful book., Praise for The Middlesteins: " The Middlesteins had me from its very first pages, but it wasn't until its final pages that I fully appreciated the range of Attenberg's sympathy and the artistry of her storytelling.", The most authentic, endearing fictional portrait of a family in recent memory. . . There is no page of this novel without compassion, empathy, humor and restraint., Jami Attenberg has written a brilliant novel inThe Middlesteins, as blazing, ferocious, and great-hearted as anything I've read. For anyone who has ever known heartbreak, the terrible love of a family, or a passion so deep you think it'll kill you,The Middlesteinswill blow you away., Vibrant . . . Thanks to Attenberg's sure-handed prose, this agile narrative swiftly moves around in time and perspectives . . . Attenberg evokes memorable moments of authentic sadness and tenderness while thoughtfully and comically examining the question of what we inherit from our families. In the case of the Middlesteins, it is many things, including their sometimes-enduring love for each other., Jami Attenberg has written a brilliant novel in The Middlesteins, as blazing, ferocious, and great-hearted as anything I've read. For anyone who has ever known heartbreak, the terrible love of a family, or a passion so deep you think it'll kill you, The Middlesteins will blow you away., This gem of a book is swift, moving and brutally honest, but it has as family-centric moral at its heart: Without family, we are nothing., The Middlesteinsis a tender, sad and funny look at a family and their mother. In fact, it's so readable, it's practically edible., [An] irresistible family portrait with piquant social commentary. Kinetic with hilarity and anguish, romance and fury, Attenberg's rapidly consumed yet nourishing novel anatomizes our insatiable hunger for love, meaning, and hope., [A] remarkable feat.... Clear-eyed funny and truthful and deeply moving, especially in the killer-punch of its ending... Refined, economical and beautifully crafted., Attenberg finds ample comic moments in this wry tale about an unraveling marriage. She has a great ear for dialog, and the novel is perfectly paced. . . . [She] seamlessly weaves comedy and tragedy in this warm and engaging family saga of love and loss.
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Synopsis
For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food--thinking about it, eating it--and if she doesn't stop, she won't have much longer to live. When Richard abandons his wife, it is up to the next generation to take control. Robin, their schoolteacher daughter, is determined that her father pay for leaving Edie. Benny, an easy-going, pot-smoking family man, just wants to smooth things over. And Rachelle-- a whippet thin perfectionist-- is intent on saving her mother-in-law's life, but this task proves even bigger than planning her twin children's spectacular b'nai mitzvah party. Through it all, they wonder: do Edie's devastating choices rest on her shoulders alone, or are others at fault, too? With pitch-perfect prose, huge compassion, and sly humor, Jami Attenberg has given us an epic story of marriage, family, and obsession. The Middlesteins explores the hopes and heartbreaks of new and old love, the yearnings of Midwestern America, and our devastating, fascinating preoccupation with food.
LC Classification Number
PS3601.T784M53 2012
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- o***o (3848)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseGreat Service, Communication and Packaging! Fast Shipping! Item as described. Highly Recommended! Thank you! A+GEORGE L VERITY From Bataan To Victory SIGNED HARDCOVER Memoir POW Prisoner WWII (#187069388629)