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Wellness

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Wellness

De : Nathan Hill
Lu par : Ari Fliakos
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about a modern marriage and the bonds that keep people together. Mining the absurdities of contemporary society, Wellness reimagines the love story with a healthy dose of insight, irony, and heart.

"A stunning novel about the stories that we tell about our lives and our loves, and how we sustain relationships throughout time—it's beyond remarkable, both funny and heartbreaking, sometimes on the same page.”—NPR

When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty '90s Chicago art scene, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to suburban married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter the often-baffling pursuits of health and happiness from polyamorous would-be suitors to home-renovation hysteria.

For the first time, Jack and Elizabeth struggle to recognize each other, and the no-longer-youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons, from unfulfilled career ambitions to childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process, Jack and Elizabeth must undertake separate, personal excavations, or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other.

©2023 Nathan Hill (P)2023 Random House Audio
Fiction Littérature et fiction Vie de famille
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    Commentaires

    "This audiobook's excellence makes its nearly 19-hour time span fly by. Ari Fliakos is superb in this complex yet supremely accessible performance. He lends his skill to the depiction of Jack and Elizabeth's relationship and all its backstories and subplots. No nuance of this novel escapes Fliakos: satirical social commentary, tender love story, hilarious missteps of modern life, heartbreaking loss . . . The full kaleidoscope of the human experience simply sings when rendered by his voice. As the plot leaps across time periods and back, Fliakos's confident pace keeps everything steady. Lively dialogue among the characters is rendered with just the right amount of wit and personality. Hill's often profound words and Fliakos's expert performance combine to make this an outstanding listening experience." (AudioFIle; winner of AudioFile Earphones Award)

    “A modern take on love, marriage, and society’s obsession on improving almost every aspect of our lives–and the impact technology and social media has on our culture and in our lives. This brilliant novel will leave you thinking about the truth of your own life and the stories we tell ourselves and each other.”–Oprah Winfrey

    "Gorgeous . . . Wellness has an insistent pull . . . The beauty of Hill’s second novel is that every character is at least a little strange and no one is unworthy of sympathy . . . Few recent novels harbor as much love for humanity as this one does."The Washington Post

    Wellness is a perfect novel for our age . . . Hill is an immensely talented writer; he has a gift for prose that's elegant but unshowy, and his dialogue consistently rings true-to-life . . . a stunning novel about the stories that we tell about our lives and our loves, and how we sustain relationships throughout time—it's beyond remarkable, both funny and heartbreaking, sometimes on the same page.”—NPR

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    It was interesting and twisty. Either way lots of unexpected turns and an elaborate storytelling. A bit long and at times difficult to follow through

    Elaborate and well written plot with probably quite a bit of research in psychology

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    Magnifique histoire où nous apprenons à connaître Jack et Elizabeth, leur parcours, leur famille, et comment toutes les expériences de la vie forge une personne.

    Une belle histoire de famille, la destinée et la force des convictions.

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    J’ai tout aimé dans ce livre.
    Les personnages ne cessent de nous surprendre au fur et à mesure qu’ils se révèlent.
    Les histoires les théories et les vérités s’entremêlent.
    Le livre est toujours drôle et bien documenté.
    Le lecteur est remarquable.

    Brillant et émouvant

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    It is a story that will have you question yourself depending of where you are at in age. It is confrontational and sometimes the person reading gets too exited and makes the experience tiring.

    Definitely a brilliant writer

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    Very good book. A little long at times, the narrator's performance was then really appreciated.

    Ari Fliakos performance

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