bookforum.com Wild Thing by JOY PRESS. Fernanda Eberstadt grew up on Park Avenue, in a wealthy bohemian family that threw parties attended by the likes of Jackie Kennedy. Recalling her childhood home, she wrote in the New York Observer, “There was a gold Andy Warhol Marilyn in the living room and an alabaster statue of ......
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Here is a review of Rat that’s just come in from Vogue. “When her mother’s predatory new boyfriend moves in, she decides to do just that, embarking on a journey across France to the English Channel and beyond. With a light touch, Eberstadt conjures the wolves and unexpected fairy godmothers of youth. When it comes to ......
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“Whether it is the immediate drama of Rat’s loss of innocence (‘her blithe assumption that other people were basically well-intentioned’) or her sometimes painful independence from the mother she loves (“from worship to apartness to wary but still infinitely tender”). the plainspoken, direct prose and the beautif...
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In search of Gypsies and their music in the South of France. Eberstadt’s first work of non-fiction, based on her six years in Perpignan’s Gypsy community and her friendship with one Gypsy family, each of whose children has chosen a quite different way of negotiating the conflicts between modernity and tribal belonging. Diane is thirty, ......
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It’s Manhattan in the 1990s. Gwen Lewis is an ambitious high-flying young consultant jetting between the ex-Soviet republics and a condominium on the Upper West Side. She has family money, a banker-boyfriend: She thinks her life is perfect. Then one day, Gwen meets Gideon Wolkowitz, an impoverished sweet-talking puppeteer who works in an anarchis...
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Meet the Geblers, a mega-rich New York Jewish philanthropical family. Dolly, a pharmaceutical heiress, is a woman whose fierce sensuality has been sublimated into a passion for contemporary art; Alfred, her prodigal husband, prefers carousing at strip joints on the West Side Highway, while their two teenaged daughters are united only on the subject...
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Set in rural New Hampshire, the novel’s hero is Isaac Hooker, a half-deaf, half-blind, hugely fat and ambitious boy-genius and his struggle to fulfill his parents’ blighted dreams. “Wonderfully vivid…A truly impressive novel.” –Michiko Kakutani, New York Times. “Fernanda Eberstadt has given us a beautiful novel, as tough as New En...
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“Low Tide” is the story of Jezebel, daughter of an English art-dealer and a mad Louisiana heiress, and her fatal love-affair with two young brothers. It takes place in New York, Oxford, and Mexico. Extract from the book: Chapter One. “My father left my mother when I was twelve and went back to London. I ......
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Fernanda Eberstadt's new book,
Rat, is available in paperback from Amazon • Barnes and Noble • Borders • Powell's • IndieBound (support independent book stores) -
Fernanda Eberstadt by Marion Ettlinger
“An ambitious resourceful writer with a lush style and a Manhattan background”—John Updike, Due Considerations
“Fernanda Eberstadt is blessed with more gifts than any one writer should be. She saturates her novels with wantonly vivid images, creates characters more thoroughly realized than most people you know, swings from yuppie jive to epigrammatic eloquence without losing her balance, and seems to know everything about everything, from the Old Testament to the coffee shops of Madison Avenue. Her prose is exuberantly, obscenely rich.” —Janice P. Nimura, Washington Post
“A novelist of exhilarating wit, incandescent metaphors, moral curiosity, and deep-sea psychology. Eberstadt’s mythic and piercing tragedy belongs beside the work of Franzen, Chabon, even De Lillo.” —Booklist
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