Tuesday Nights in 1980

Tuesday Nights in 1980

â€œIn one sentence, Ms. Prentiss captures a sense of intoxication and possibility that six seasons of voice-overs from Sarah Jessica Parker never couldâ€¦Ms. Prentiss concludes her novel on a note thatâ€™s both ethereal and brutally realistic. She cauterizes wounds, but theyâ€™re still visible and bare. But for her charactersâ€”for this promising authorâ€”itâ€™s enough.â€ â€”The New York Times

â€œAn intoxicating Manhattan fairy taleâ€¦As affecting as it is absorbing. A thrilling debut.â€ â€”Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

â€œA vital, sensuous, edgy, and suspenseful tale of longing, rage, fear, compulsion, and love.â€ â€”Booklist (starred review)

A transcendent debut novel that follows a critic, an artist, and a desirous, determined young woman as they find their wayâ€”and ultimately collideâ€”amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980s.

Welcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, not-yet-gentrified playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett, a synesthetic art critic for The New York Times whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound, magical ways, and Raul Engales, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown arts scene, dual tragedies strike, and each is faced with a loss that acutely affects his relationship to life and to art. It is not until they are inadvertently brought together by Lucy Olliasonâ€”a small town beauty and Raulâ€™s museâ€”and a young orphan boy sent mysteriously from Buenos Aires, that James and Raul are able to rediscover some semblance of what theyâ€™ve lost.

As inventive as Jennifer Egan's A Visit From The Goon Squad and as sweeping as Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings, Tuesday Nights in 1980 boldly renders a complex moment when the meaning and nature of art is being all but upended, and New York City as a whole is reinventing itself. In risk-taking prose that is as powerful as it is playful, Molly Prentiss deftly explores the need for beauty, community, creation, and love in an ever-changing urban landscape.
Country USA
Manufacturer Gallery/Scout Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-04-05
UnitCount 1
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Gallery/Scout Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-04-05
UnitCount	1
Format	Kindle eBook

Tuesday Nights in 1980

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