The Interestings
Meg Wolitzer
Discover the generation-defining American novel from the author of The Wife
Whatever became of the most talented people you once knew?
On a warm summer night in 1974, six teenagers play at being cool. They smoke pot, drink vodka, share their dreams and vow always to be interesting.
Decades later, aspiring actress Jules has resigned herself to a more practical occupation; Cathy has stopped dancing; Jonah has laid down his guitar and Goodman has disappeared. Only Ethan and Ash, now married, have remained true to their adolescent dreams and have become shockingly successful too. As the group’s fortunes tilt precipitously, their friendships are put under the ultimate strain.
‘A truly great novel about friendship, and how it deepens and changes over the years’ David Sedaris, author of Me Talk Pretty One Day
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About Meg Wolitzer
Reviews for The Interestings
Kate Mosse
The Times
Wolitzer is a writer of prodigious energy and detail, with the knack for comic-satirical perceptions of character and culture
Rachel Cusk
Guardian
A complex, cleverly interwoven analysis of the moment when the lives of six friends begin to unravel’
Viv Groskop
Observer
Wolitzer has a knack for homing in on the kind of pretension-puncturing details that can sum up a minor character in a single sentence
Hepzibah Anderson
Daily Mail
Meg Wolitzer writes fluently about the American Dream and whether you should surrender your goals to reality in this wonderful novel
Stylist
I love Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings because it’s sprawling and beautifully written and it opens at a summer camp. It’s a truly great novel about friendship, and how it deepens and changes over the years
David Sedaris
Conde Nast Traveller
A breakout book
Allison Pearson If you enjoy the introspective aspects of Virginia Woolf or the American modernity of Jennifer Egan, you’ll love this sweeping, tragicomic novel of ideas
Psychologies
One of those generation-defining America novels that tackles big historical issues
Marie Claire
Full of wit
Emerald Street