The end of loneliness /

The end of loneliness /

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Author / Creator:	Wells, Benedict, 1984- author.
Imprint:	[New York] : Penguin Books, [2018] ©2018
Description:	256 pages ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Bereavement -- Fiction. Parents -- Death -- Fiction. Brothers and sisters -- Fiction. Orphans -- Fiction. Family secrets -- Fiction. Solitude -- Fiction. Bereavement. Brothers and sisters. Family secrets. Orphans. Parents -- Death. Solitude. Bildungsromans. Fiction. Literary -- Fiction. Coming of Age -- Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11774732

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Other authors / contributors:	Collins, Charlotte, 1967- translator.
ISBN:	9780143134008 0143134000 9780525505785
Notes:	"First published in Great Britain by Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton." "Published by arrangement with Hodder & Stoughton Ltd." "Originally published in German as Vom Ende der Einsamkeit by Diogenes Verglag AG, 2016." Translated from the German.
Summary:	"From internationally bestselling author Benedict Wells, a sweeping, heartbreaking novel of friendship, memory, and the lives we never get to live "[D]azzling storytelling ... The End of Loneliness is both affecting and accomplished -- and eternal."--John Irving At eleven years old, Jules Moreau loses his parents in a tragic accident, and in an instant, his childhood is shattered. Leaving a comfortable home in Munich and holidays in the south of France far behind, he and his siblings, Marty and Liz, are enrolled in a bleak boarding school, where the trio begin to lose each other, as well as themselves. Marty throws himself into academic life; Liz is drawn to dark forms of escapism; and Jules, though once vivacious and fearless, turns inward, becoming a ghost of his former self ... until he meets Alva. Shy, intelligent, and enigmatic, and concealing a dark childhood of her own, Alva pulls Jules out of his shell and the two bond over books and writing, always with an unspoken understanding of the other's pain. Eight years later, at the precipice of their friendship becoming more, Alva abruptly turns her back, and the two leave school on separate paths. As they enter adulthood, Jules, Marty, and Liz, still strangers to one another, struggle to contend with who they are becoming. Jules is adrift, growing into a directionless young man, anchored only by two desires: to be a writer, and to have Alva back in his life. It isn't until Liz hits rock bottom that the three siblings finally find their footing as a family, and Jules finds the nerve to reach out to Alva -- fifteen years after they last spoke. Invited by Alva to join her and her husband, an esteemed author, at their home in Switzerland, Jules finds his way back to his own writing, and to his closest friend. As life begins to fall into place, just as it seems that they can make amends for time wasted, the past catches up with them, and fate -- or chance -- once again intervenes. A kaleidoscopic and heartfelt family saga, as well as a deeply felt meditation on the power of memory, The End of Loneliness explores the invisible forces and currents that can change our lives in an instant, and asks us all to consider, If you spend all your life running in the wrong direction, could it be the right one after all?"-- "A kaleidoscopic and heartfelt family saga, as well as a deeply felt meditation on the power of memory, The End of Loneliness explores the invisible forces and currents that can change our lives in an instant, and asks us all to consider, If you spend all your life running in the wrong direction, could it be the right one after all?"--
Other form:	Online version: Wells, Benedict, 1984- End of loneliness. New York : Penguin Books, 2019 9780525505785

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Summary:	From internationally bestselling author Benedict Wells, a sweeping novel of love and loss, and of the lives we never get to live <br> <br> "[D]azzling storytelling... The End of Loneliness is both affecting and accomplished -- and eternal." -- John Irving <br> <br> "An exquisitely wrought and utterly absorbing meditation upon life, loss and love." -- Ian McEwan <br> <br> Jules Moreau's childhood is shattered after the sudden death of his parents. Enrolled in boarding school where he and his siblings, Marty and Liz, are forced to live apart, the once vivacious and fearless Jules retreats inward, preferring to live within his memories - until he meets Alva, a kindred soul caught in her own grief. Fifteen years pass and the siblings remain strangers to one another, bound by tragedy and struggling to recover the family they once were. Jules, still adrift, is anchored only by his desires to be a writer and to reunite with Alva, who turned her back on their friendship on the precipice of it becoming more. But, just as it seems they can make amends for time wasted, invisible forces - whether fate or chance - intervene.<br> <br> A kaleidoscopic family saga told through the fractured lives of the three Moreau siblings, alongside a faltering, recovering love story, The End of Loneliness is a stunning meditation on the power of our memories, of what can be lost and what can never be let go. With inimitable compassion and luminous, affecting prose, Benedict Wells contends with what it means to find a way through life, while never giving up hope you will find someone to go with you.
Item Description:	"First published in Great Britain by Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton." "Published by arrangement with Hodder & Stoughton Ltd." "Originally published in German as Vom Ende der Einsamkeit by Diogenes Verglag AG, 2016."
Physical Description:	256 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:	9780143134008 0143134000 9780525505785