Claire Messud - The Emperor's Children

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From a writer "of near-miraculous perfection" (The New York Times Book

Review) and "a literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers

of her generation" (San Francisco Chronicle), The Emperor's Children

is a dazzling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives

of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way-and

not-in New York City. There is beautiful, sophisticated Marina Thwaite-an

"It" girl finishing her first book; the daughter ofMurray hwaite,celebratedint-

ellectual andjournalist-and her two closest friends from Brown, Danielle,

a quietly appealing television producer, and Julius, acash-strapped

freelance critic. The delicious complications that arise among them

become dangerous when Murray's nephew, Frederick "Bootie" Tubb, an dealistic

college dropout determined to make his mark, comes to town. As the skies

darken, it is Bootie's unexpected decisions-and their stunning, heartbreaking

outcome-that will change each of their lives forever. A richly drawn,

brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune-of innocence and experience,

seduction and self-invention; of ambition, including literary ambition;

of glamour, disaster, and promise-The Emperor's Children is a tour de

force that brings to life a city, a generation, and the way we live

in this moment.