Dylan Landis

Normal People Don't Live Like This (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Wonderful! Leah and Helen are authentic, vulnerable characters, whose intimate truths are exposed at perfect, unexpected moments."―Elizabeth Strout A jolting, sensual novel-in-stories that traces the crises, cruelties and passions of girls and mothers in the chaos of 1970s Greenwich Village, now in a deluxe edition featuring a reader's guide and a new, previously unpublished story. 1970s Greenwich Village: Leah Levinson can't help worshipping the girls who torment her at school. Her perilous, magnetic friendships with Rainey Royal and Angeline Yost-girls she fears yet cannot resist-leave her desperate to shift the balance of power and affection. Meanwhile, Leah's emotionally estranged mother, Helen, secretly rents a room uptown where she lives out a second life. And Rainey-whose chaotic upbringing fills her with artistic inspiration and dread-decides to risk everything on an act of vengeance in a legendary artists' building. As we move between points of view, the New York of another era blazes with danger, beauty, and possibility. First published in 2009 and now expanded with a new story, Normal People Don't Live Like This is a luminous depiction of the crises, cruelties, and passions of girls and mothers, and the first book in the Rainey Royal Cycle. It is joined by a new novel-in-stories, List of All Possible Desires, and a deluxe reissue of the 2014 novel Rainey Royal. Each book stands on its own, yet together they echo and amplify one another, creating one of the richest and most intense worlds in contemporary American fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Soho Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781641298018
• Artikelnr.: 74883892

Autorenporträt

Dylan Landis is the author of three works of fiction in the Rainey Royal Cycle set in 1970s Greenwich Village: the forthcoming novel-in-stories List of All Possible Desires; the novel Rainey Royal, a New York Times Editors' Choice; and the linked story collection Normal People Don't Live Like This. Her work has appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories, Harper's Magazine, Bomb, and elsewhere. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction and lives in Los Angeles.