Triburbia - Hardcover

Greenfeld, Karl Taro

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062132393 ISBN 13: 9780062132390

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2012

Synopsis

Thrown together by circumstance, a group of fathers--a sound engineer, a sculptor, a film producer, a writer and a gangster--meet each morning at a local coffee shop where they share their secrets, passions and hopes, and confront terrible truths about ambition, wealth and sex. 30,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Greenfeld is an acute social observer, but "Triburbia" is more than a chronicle of fading hipness; it's also a loving examination of marital and family trials and ties."--"Boston Globe"

"Greenfeld taps into something universal with "Triburbia". . . . An accomplished journalist, Greenfeld brings a reporter's curiosity and an artist's empathy to his crackling, observant first novel."--"Entertainment Weekly" (A-)

""Dubliners" for the middle-aged downtown set. . . . Mr. Greenfeld's prose is as lean and declarative as a newspaper article, though there are moments of creepy comic brilliance."--"The Observer"

""Triburbia" is darkly humorous, occasionally lascivious, unsparing in its condemnations of the main characters and intrepid in its honest descriptions of the human conscience... But it's not a sad book. It's a candid one. And a good one. It is reassuring, cathartic even."--"Downtown Magazine"

""Triburbia", should share space on the shelf next to Tom Perrotta's "Little Children" and Jeffery Eugenides's "The Virgin Suicides"."--Benjamin Percy, author of "The Wilding" and "Refresh, Refresh"

"I loved "Triburbia", loved dropping in on these wonderful characters with their outsized appetites and ambitions . . . Most of all, though, I loved Karl Taro Greenfeld's deft satirical touch, the searing empathy with which he offers up his privileged, damaged people to the world."--Jess Walter, author of "Beautiful Ruins" and "The Financial Lives of the Poets"

""Triburbia" is a snapshot of a Manhattan subculture at a certain moment in time. . . . An acclaimed memoirist and journalist turns to fiction to capture the spirit of his neighborhood in the full throes of gentrification."--"Shelf Awareness"

""Triburbia" is a chorus of voices so sharp, vivid, and finely tuned that New York sounds as if it's speaking directly to us. But more than a portrait of a neighborhood, it's also an absorbing expos? of the extravagant preoccupations and dark desires of the new millennium."--Eleanor Henderson, author of "Ten Thousand Saints"

"The excellent "Triburbia" brings to mind such modern masters as Cheever, Updike, and Salter, but Greenfeld delivers his own wonderfully sharp-eyed take on recent American life. . . . This is fiction of the first rank--intense, suspenseful, and relevant in the most urgent way."--Ben Fountain, author of "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" and "Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, "

"I loved "Triburbia," loved dropping in on these wonderful characters with their outsized appetites and ambitions . . . Most of all, though, I loved Karl Taro Greenfeld's deft satirical touch, the searing empathy with which he offers up his privileged, damaged people to the world."--Jess Walter, author of "Beautiful Ruins" and "The Financial Lives of the Poets"

Book Description:

Bold, brave and darkly funny, Triburbia explores the experience of fatherhood in the modern world.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062132393
• ISBN 13: 9780062132390
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 253