Writers & Lovers
9 hrs. 4 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Lily King
Author
Lily King
Narrator
Nona Troyanovskaya
Narrator
Nona Troyanovskaya
Description
Casey Peabody has a deal with herself: in the mornings, don’t think about endless debts, the breakup that just happened, and her mother’s death. None of that can be thought about in the mornings—otherwise she won’t be able to write. Thirty-one-year-old Casey Peabody works as a waitress and barely manages to scrape together money for a tiny room in a garden shed—and she writes a novel. Six years already, Casey Peabody has been writing her novel while almost all of her old friends have abandoned their silly ideas about creative self-expression, got their heads on straight, and settled down. Casey’s world is bleak, and it becomes even more fractured when she falls in love with two very different men at the same time… But little by little—even through the haze of grief—Casey starts to realize that her novel, maybe, is actually turning out worth reading. After “Euphoria,” a novel warmly received by critics and readers, Lily King wrote a brilliant book about the act of writing novels: a plot that might seem conventional if Lily King weren’t herself—a smart, deep author, simultaneously gentle and uncompromising, sensitive to both the sad and the funny. By luring the gifted, charming, vulnerable heroine of “Writers and Lovers” into a trap so painfully familiar to so many creators, King compellingly explores that very gap between the past and the future, when everything in life turns to dust before the door opens onto something new.
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