The Interestings

　　榮獲歐普拉俱樂部選書、紐約時報暢銷作家Meg Wolitzer超越自我代表作！
　　被譽為與強納森.法蘭岑《自由》、傑佛瑞.尤金尼德斯《The Marriage Plot》並駕其驅的時代經典！

　　1974年夏天，六個參加夏令營活動的青少年，因為彼此對藝術的志趣相投而變得密不可分。小說便是圍繞著這六人的成長過程，從躊躇滿志的少年時期，寫到歷經生活考驗的中年危機。

　　年少時的才華洋溢，有時終究抵不過現實的殘酷打擊。六人之中的Jules曾經是個很有抱負的喜劇女演員，卻認清自己天份不夠，而不得不離開喜愛的劇場。擁有音樂天賦的Jonah，放下熱愛的吉他，改行做工程師。唯有夫妻檔Ethan與Ash不僅實現最初的藝術夢想，甚至成功地做出一番事業，名利雙收。

　　這六個好朋友的情誼如老酒般越陳越香，但隨著命運之神不同的安排，也讓原本單純的友情變得複雜。藝術、金錢與權力，似乎隨時都能讓這些人的生活與感情一夕翻盤……。（文／博客來編譯）

　　"A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's."—Entertainment Weekly (A)

　　From New York Times–bestselling author Meg Wolitzer comes a new novel that has been called "genius" (The Chicago Tribune), “wonderful” (Vanity Fair), "ambitious" (San Francisco Chronicle), and a “page-turner” (Cosmopolitan), which The New York Times Book Review says is "among the ranks of books like Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom and Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot."

　　The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge.

　　The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules’s now-married best friends, become shockingly successful—true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken.

　　Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.