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Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson

Ten Thousand Saints Eleanor Henderson ebook
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780062021021
Format: pdf
Page: 400

It is one of the best books I have read this year, and I can't wait for more from Eleanor Henderson. (Go to the original post…) Ten Thousand Saints. Eleanor Henderson's Ten Thousand Saints hooked me from the first line: “'Is it dreamed?' Jude asked Teddy. In Eleanor Henderson's proudly unsentimental debut novel, a teenager who ODs on New Year's Eve unknowingly pulls together the friends and family he left behind. My study of multiple character POV stories and pure impulsive curiosity led me to Eleanor Henderson's Ten Thousand Saints and I'm very glad it did. Remember how Jennifer Egan's A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD set book lovers abuzz in 2010? Reblogged from: The Wesleyan Writing Blog. A coming-of-age novel that doesn't pull many punches, Ten Thousand Saints opens with Jude and Teddy getting high under the bleachers of their Vermont high school in 1987, dreaming of escape. Though it had a couple of holes, Eleanor Henderson's fascinating look at 1980s New York and the straight edge movement made “Ten Thousand Saints” a haunting, compelling read. Mostly set in the Lower East Side of 1980s New York City, Ten Thousand Saints is that rare book that paints scenes so vividly you can imagine the movie in your head. Great fiction can open up your mind and heart to characters and new ideas, and "Ten Thousand Saints" is great fiction. Published by Quercus 28 February 2013. Discussions are free and open to the public. Ten Thousand Saints cover Listed fourth among the fiction books is “Ten Thousand Saints,” by Eleanor Henderson, a 2005 MFA graduate. Well, get ready for Eleanor Henderson's TEN THOUSAND SAINTS to shake you up and leave you breathless in 2011. It is within this emerging subculture in 1988 that Ten Thousand Saints provides the perfect backdrop for the transformative story of Jude Keffy-Horn, a Vermont teenager who had been adopted by a pair of diehard hippies. Discuss contemporary fiction with insight from professional psychoanalysts from the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. As you can tell from the reading, Ten Thousand Saints is about more than Jude and his friends and straight edge.