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Dan Kois

Vintage Contemporaries : A Novel

€28,95

Vintage Contemporaries is about being young and becoming less young, exploring friendship (sometimes magical, sometimes messy), parenthood (ditto), and how to reconcile youthful ambition and ideals with real life. Its a warm and big-hearted coming of age story that made me wistful for my own twenties, set in a vividly rendered and long-vanished New York City.Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind

Slate editor Dan Kois makes his fiction debut with this stunning coming-of-age novel set in New York City, about the joys of unexpected life-altering friendships,the power of finding ourselves in the moment,and the importance of forgiving ourselves when we inevitably mess everything up.

Its 1991. Em moved to New York City for excitement and possibility, but the big city isnt quite what she thought it would be.

Working as a literary agents assistant, shes down to her last nineteen dollars but has made two close friends: Emily, a firebrand theater director living in a Lower East Side squat, and Lucy, a middle-aged novelist and single mom. Ems life revolves around these two wildly different women and their vividly disparate yet equally assured views of art and the world. But who is Em, and what does she want to become?

It's 2004.

Em is now Emily, a successful book editor, happily married and barely coping with the challenges of a new baby. And suddenly Lucy and Emily return to her life: Her old friend Lucy's posthumous book needs a publisher, and her ex-friend Emily wants to rekindle their relationship. As they did once before, these two womenone dead, one very aliveforce Emily to reckon with her decisions, her failures, and what kind of creative life she wants to lead.

A sharp, reflective, and funny story of a young woman coming into herself and struggling to find her place, Vintage Contemporaries is a novel about art, parenthood, loyalty, and fighting for a causethe times we do the right thing, and the times we failset in New York City on both sides of the millennium.

Format: Hardcover
Published: USA, 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 317
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780063162419
ISBN 10: 0063162415

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Vintage Contemporaries : A Novel

€28,95