Ten Thousand Saints - Softcover

Henderson, Eleanor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062428691 ISBN 13: 9780062428691

Publisher: Ecco Pr, 2015

Synopsis

New York Times Bestseller

Now a movie starring Ethan Hawke, Emile Hirsch, Hailee Steinfeld, and Asa Butterfield

In a small Vermont town in the late 1980s, restless, marginal Jude spends much of his youth getting high with his best friend, Teddy. But when Teddy dies of an overdose, Jude's relationship with drugs and his parents devolves to new extremes. Sent to live with his pot-dealing father in the East Village, Jude stumbles upon straight edge, an underground drug-free youth culture powered by the paradoxical aggression of hardcore punk.

With Teddy's half brother, Johnny, and their new friend, Eliza, Jude tries to honor Teddy through his militantly clean lifestyle but this, too, has its own dangerous consequences. As these teenagers battle to discover themselves, their parents grapple with their children's radical reinterpretation of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll and their grown-up awareness of nature and nurture, brotherhood and loss.

With empathy and masterful skill, Eleanor Henderson has conjured a rich portrait of the struggles that unite and divide generations."

About this title

Review:

"Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every scene, every perspective, every fleeting impression, every impulse and desire.... She is never ironic or underwhelmed; her preferred mode is fierce, devoted and elegiac."--Stacy D'Erasmo, New York Times Book Review, Cover Review

"One of the Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2011...[A] raucous first novel"--New York Times Book Review, Paperback Row

"Rarely has a coming-of-age novel captured a time and place-here the late 1980s on Manhattan's Lower East Side-with such perfect pitch. Grade: A"--Entertainment Weekly

"[Henderson] has a perfect ear for conversation between siblings; the way a lazy spat can turn into a grudging moment of closeness. And the euphoria of the straight edge movement that Jude and Johnny embrace suffuses the novel with a reckless, glib joy...a bittersweet, lovely book."--NPR.org

"The best and most lyrically written coming-of-age novel of the year."--The Daily Beast/Newsweek Writers' Best Books of 2011

"[A] rare debut that, with a flinty kind of nostalgia, invokes both the gods and demons of a generation."--Vogue

"An irresistibly rich and engrossing novel...poignant, complex...Henderson brilliantly evokes the gritty energy of New York City in the '80s, and the violent euphoria of the music scene. The hard-edged settings highlight the touching vulnerability of young characters."--O magazine, Best Fiction 2011

"Highbrow/Brilliant: All the all-star sentences in Eleanor Henderson's punk-rock-teen novel Ten Thousand Saints."--New York Magazine Approval Matrix

"Ten Thousand Saints is a whirling dervish of a first novel--a planet, a universe, a trip. As wild as that may sound, wonder of wonders, the book is also carefully and lovingly created... [Henderson] writes with great compassion but does not flinch"--Los Angeles Times

"[The] reader smells the sweat, blood, urine, beer; hears the crowds screaming; feels herself at times flung into the mosh pit - Henderson shepherds her characters with blatant affection...raucous, wounded, sweet, spasmodically desperate, [Saints] comes to feel like a modern, drug-and-rock-riddled version of Peter Pan..."--San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author:

Eleanor Henderson earned her MFA from the University of Virginia in 2005. An associate professor at Ithaca College, she lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband and two sons.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco Pr
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0062428691
• ISBN 13: 9780062428691
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390