“It’s interesting to see Eberstadt writing about a child. In her earlier novels, she has been entirely unafraid to sit in judgment on her characters and their choices. With Rat, a child in a difficult situation, Eberstadt is unfettered by her usual preoccupations with morality. The result is a dreamily sensuous mode—set in relief when...
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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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