Fernanda will be reading at Joe's pub on Wednesday the 6th of April as part of the Happy Ending Music and Reading Series. The theme will be Legends & Beliefs. Alongside Fernanda will be Tea Obreht and Dean Bakopoulos with musical guest Jay Brannan. For tickets and information click here....
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Here's something I wrote for MarshalZerengue's blog, based on the theory that everything you need to know about a book can be learned by sneaking a peek at p. 69 "I read a massive amount of contemporary fiction, and yet I am one of those indecisive cheapskates who loiters in bookstores, skimming through the Recent Release shelves, trying to figu...
read more..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 ......
read more..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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read more..Florida Reading 4.30 pm, Saturday April 3rd. Voltaire Books 330 Simonton Street Key West, Florida Telephone: 305-296-3226 NYC Reading 7 pm, Wednesday April 7th. 192 Books 192 Tenth Avenue at 21st Street, NYC 10011 Paula Cooper Gallery. www.192books.com Baltimore Reading 6.30 pm, Tuesday April 13th. Ivy Bookshop 6080 Falls Road Baltimore, MD 21209...
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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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Fernanda Eberstadt’s new book, Rat, is available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and your local book store. “Fernanda Eberstadt’s dazzling Rat is a contemporary French fairy tale in which a fifteen year old Cinderella named Rat relies on her own goodness and grit to join the disparate halves of her unlikely, charmed, and difficult life. E...
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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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