The Fortunate Ones

The Fortunate Ones
Ed Tarkington
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 320pg
1 Jan 2021 US
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9781616206802
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"Tarkington' s writing . . . calls to mind a young Pat Conroy. " --Garden & Gun When Charlie Boykin was young, he' d thought his life with his single mother was really just fine. But when his mother' s connections get Charlie into boarding school and give them access to the upper echelons of Nashville society, Charlie falls under the spell of all that a life among the wealthy can mean. Increasingly attached to another boy, Arch Creigh, Charlie learns how morality has little to do with life in Belle Meade. On into college and after, Charlie aids Arch in his pursuit of a Senate seat, only to be pulled into a growing web of deceit. The novel examines the questions: Why do the poor love the rich? Why do we envy and worship a class of people that so often exhibits the worst excesses and the lowest morals? For fans of Ann Patchett' s Commonwealth and Kevin Wilson' s Nothing to See Here, The Fortunate Ones is an engrossing story of class, love, and loyalty.
Praise for The Fortunate Ones: "There' s a sharpness to Ed Tarkington' s view of the world, an exacting truthfulness of how things work, but he marries it to such an open-hearted and resonant humanity in his writing that it' s hard not to place him easily in the company of Pat Conroy and Alice McDermott. In The Fortunate Ones, Tarkington examines privilege and friendship with that same incredible perspective, and he helps us see the difficulties of trying to hold onto yourself even as you want so badly to be transformed. An amazing, thought-provoking novel by one of our most generous writers. " --Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here "Ed Tarkington perfectly captures the heady, conflicted emotions that come with proximity to privilege -- both the irresistible longing and the heartbreaking disillusionment. I' m recommending The Fortunate Ones to every book club I know. " --Mary Laura Philpott, author of I Miss You When I Blink Praise for Only Love Can Break Your Heart: "A lush mystery-within-a-coming-of-age-tale-within-a-Southern-Gothic . . . Beautifully written. " --NPR Books "A pitch-perfect first novel. " --Chicago Tribune "Tarkington' s writing is talky, devoid of flash, and calls to mind a young Pat Conroy . . . propulsion is its primary attribute. Not mere plot propulsion--though there' s plenty of that, especially after the corpses turn up--but emotional propulsion: Tarkington' s fidelity to period and place is matched by his fidelity to human contradictions, to the gray area between heroism and villainy in which most of us reside. The gothic elements add spice, but the protein in this assured debut--the part that sticks to your ribs--is the beautiful but ever-threatened connection between Rocky and Paul. Only Love Can Break Your Heart is a novel about brotherhood, most of all, about the delicate fortress of that bond. " --Garden & Gun "All good fiction is about blood, love or money . . . Tarkington has hit the trifecta with his soulful first novel. " --Minneapolis Star Tribune "Readers who can' t get enough of Wiley Cash, Ron Rash, and Brian Panowich will delight in discovering this fine new writer. " --Library Journal (starred review)
Ed Tarkington' s debut novel Only Love Can Break Your Heart was an ABA Indies Introduce selection, an Indie Next pick, a Book of the Month Club Main Selection, and a Southern Independent Booksellers Association bestseller. A regular contributor to Chapter16. org, his articles, essays, and stories have appeared in a variety of publications including the Nashville Scene, Memphis Commercial Appeal, Knoxville News-Sentinel, and Lit Hub. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781616206802
Published: 1 Jan 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Algonquin Books (Division of Workman)
Publisher: Algonquin Books (Division of Workman)
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 320

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