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Loading... Ten Thousand Saints: A Novel (edition 2011)by Eleanor Henderson
Work InformationTen Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson
  
None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) jarrettbrown | Jul 4, 2023 |  As others have said, there is an awful lot going on. It is as though the author had a list of 'things that went on in 80s New York' and decided that all of them had to go into this story. It led to a confusing plot that went in many directions all at once, and I lost what the main gist of the story was. There were too many characters to follow. Sadly, I didn't find myself liking or caring about any of them. I also got bored with the narration, which often came in large chunks that didn't really add much to the story (hence the skim-reading). I didn't really realise what the main theme of the book was before I started reading (I felt the blurb on the cover was misleading) or I doubt I would have read it. But it did give me an insight into a time period that I was unaware of before so it isn't all negative. (  ) Triduana | Jan 25, 2022 |  ) flemertown | Jul 10, 2021 |  ) badube | Mar 6, 2019 | I really enjoyed reading this book - it was a wonderful surprise. I just wish I could have emerged from the end of the book knowing what is was attempting to say. ( ) Katie_Roscher | Jan 18, 2019 |
Henderson’s book reads in part like an elegy: she follows her characters from 1987 to 2006, long enough to capture the end of the era and its strange aftermath.  The ambition of "Ten Thousand Saints," Eleanor Henderson’s debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. In nearly 400 pages, 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 and bit of emotional detritus. She is never ironic or underwhelmed; her preferred mode is fierce, devoted and elegiac.  At times, 'Ten Thousand Saints' feels overplotted, as if the author had let her cast of love-and-drug-besotted misfits take the reins. But that haphazardness paired with the sometime painful teenage rites of passage, adds up to a bittersweet, lovely book. "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, taking the reader far into the lives and souls of its characters and bringing them back out again, blinking in the bright light. AwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
When his best friend Teddy dies of an overdose on the last day of 1987, Jude Keffy-Horn finds his relationship with drugs and his parents devolving into the extreme when he gets caught up in an underground youth culture known as straight edge. No library descriptions found. 
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