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Dermout interweaves the various elements of her subtle novel to over whelming effect. Jul 12, 2015 six months before the main action in julia pierponts first novel, among the ten thousand things, begins, an affluent upper west sider named deb shanley still has the option of moving past. A group of friends becomes motivated to living fuller lives after the unexpected death. Thus, it denotes the fecundity of the allcreative maya the boundless abundance of our mother god, and also the world of multiplicity, change and flux as opposed to the unitary transcendence of the spirit. Spelled out against the rich, colorful background that author dermout knows so well and handles so effectively, this is an affirmation that emerges with an oddly insistent. The ten thousand things is a novel of shimmering strangeness the story of felicia, who returns with her baby son from holland to the spice islands of indonesia, to the house and. Jul 23, 2015 infidelity is steeped in suspense in among the ten thousand things julia pierponts debut novel opens with a young girls discovery of her fathers infidelity.
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A classic novel that has inspired readers across the world. The ten thousand things are the fragments that make up lifes substance, and to go on living, however maddeningly arranged the fragments may be, is itself a valid action. The story is a rich tapestry of family life against the exotic, tropical background. The ten thousand things is an entranced vision of a faroff place that is as convincingly real and intimate as it is exotic, a book that is at once a lament and an ecstatic. May 31, 2014 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. In wild, cheryl strayed writes of the ten thousand things each of dermouts sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a faroff land that felt to me like the blood of all the places i used to love. For fans of jennifer egan, jonathan franzen, lorrie moore and curtis sittenfeld, among the ten thousand things is. Eihei dogen, 12001253 stillness speaks is pleased to offer this excerpt.
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