Título: Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance: A Novel
Autor: Alison Espach
Sinopse: Named a Best Book of 2022 by NPR and The Chicago Tribune
From Alison Espach, author of the New York Times Editors' Choice novel The Adults, comes a dazzlingly unconventional love story for readers of Ask Again, Yes and Tell the Wolves I’m Home.
For much of her life, Sally Holt has been mystified by the things her older sister, Kathy, seems to have been born knowing. Kathy has answers for all of Sally’s questions about life, about love, and about Billy Barnes, a rising senior and local basketball star who mans the concession stand at the town pool. The girls have been fascinated by Billy ever since he jumped off the roof in elementary school, but Billy has never shown much interest in them until the summer before Sally begins eighth grade. By then, their mutual infatuation with Billy is one of the few things the increasingly different sisters have in common. Sally spends much of that summer at the pool, watching in confusion and excitement as her sister falls deeper in love with Billy―until a tragedy leaves Sally’s life forever intertwined with his.
Opening in the early nineties and charting almost two decades of shared history and missed connections, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance is both a breathtaking love story about two broken people who are unexplainably, inconveniently drawn to each other and a wryly astute coming-of-age tale brimming with unexpected moments of joy.
“Heartbreaking and funny, often in the same sentence―a deeply felt, finely wrought, and highly satisfying novel. Alison Espach has created a family whose every sorrow, joy, and idiosyncrasy is utterly, vibrantly real.”―New York Times bestselling author Claire Lombardo
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance: A Novel”, de Alison Espach, publicado pela editora Henry Holt and Co., em 2022 e com 352 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Henry Holt and Co.
Páginas: 352
Ano: 2022-05-17
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Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1250823145
ISBN13: 9781250823144
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Henry Holt and Co. costumam oferecer uma experiência de leitura que combina narrativas envolventes com temas contemporâneos e históricos. O catálogo apresenta obras que transitam entre relatos históricos detalhados, como guerras e eventos políticos, e reflexões pessoais profundas, incluindo memórias marcadas por desafios sociais e emocionais. A linguagem varia entre o acessível e o sofisticado, com textos que exploram desde a tensão de conflitos militares até a intimidade de histórias de superação. O ritmo pode ser tanto acelerado e tenso em narrativas de suspense e mistério, quanto mais reflexivo e didático em obras que abordam ciência, política e questões sociais.
