Ten Thousand Saints - Softcover

Henderson, Eleanor

3.5

7,192 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780872194 ISBN 13: 9781780872193

Publisher: riverrun, 2013

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Vermont, New Year's Eve, 1987. All Jude wants to do is get high. All Teddy wants to do is get out. One of them won't live to see 1988. In the wake of this death, three teenagers will try to find a way of honouring their lost friend. Is clean living the answer? Is parenthood? Or the simplicity of carrying out a last wish? Winding its way through Vermont, New York, the Straight Edge music scene and the early days of the AIDS epidemic, Ten Thousand Saints is a fierce, brilliant depiction of all types of love and its flaws, of life, loss and pain; a profoundly human story that explores how one moment of carelessness can impact the lives of so many.

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Review:

'A rare debut that, with a flinty kind of nostalgia, invokes both the gods and demons of a generation' Vogue. (Vogue)

'Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every impulse and desire ... fierce, devoted and elegiac' New York Times Book Review. (New York Times Book Review)

'Henderson's writing ... is warm, engaged, and precise' Nick Hornby. (Nick Hornby)

From the Back Cover:

In the roiling, electrified streets of New York City in the 1980s, Eliza, Jude, and Johnny each show up wanting a place to hide--from everything that has gone wrong, big and small, in their short lives. These three, thrown together by their parents' mistakes and their own, and by the accidental death of a teenage boy, find their regrets transformed into a single, covert mission. Possibility shines from every neglected, graffitied surface. Possibility rings in the hardcore music and seething energy of the city's underground scene. But as they pursue the intoxicating promise of redemption and new life, their secret threatens to crush their alliance with its impossibly heavy burden.

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