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Everyday People
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.00
ISBN13: 9780802138835
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Published: Apr 5 2002
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.26
Language: English
This novel of Pittsburgh, by the author of Last Night at the Lobster, celebrates the lives of everyday people in an extraordinary way (San Francisco Chronicle).
Pittsburgh, 1998: Chris Crest Tolbert is eighteen years old, a soon-to-be father, and partially paralyzed after an accident that left his best friend dead. As he navigates the challenges of new fatherhood and life as a paraplegic, Crest must also negotiate his relationships with his born-again brother and his father, who has been cheating on Crest's mother with a younger man.
In Everyday People, acclaimed novelist Stewart O'Nan offers a multifaceted portrait of Crest and of East Liberty, the African American neighborhood he calls home. The result is a living, breathing history lesson that brings together a set of compelling voices that make real and immediate the ups and downs of a black urban community (Chicago Tribune).
Like Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio or Gloria Naylor's Women of Brewster Place, Everyday People weaves its tale elliptically. . . . O'Nan creates vivid interior worlds, evoking conflicts and joys with astonishing grace and agility. --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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