Name: Long Island Compromise
SKU: 56547017
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Author: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Type

Physical Book

Author

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Publisher

Headline Publishing Group

Year

2024

Pages

464

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

240 x 156 (mm)

ISBN13

9781472273031

Long Island Compromise

Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Author) · Headline Publishing Group · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Long Island Compromise"

From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble comes Long Island Compromise, a darkly exhilarating novel about an American family and its inheritance - the safety and wealth that they fought for, and the precarity of their survival that is their legacy.

In 1982, wealthy businessman Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of the nicest part of Long Island. He is brutalised, held for ransom and then returned to his family. Carl, his wife and his three kids all try to move on with their lives, and resume their prized places in the ongoing saga of the American dream.

But nearly forty years later, when Carl's mother dies, the trauma that has been bubbling beneath the Fletchers' lives all this time surfaces at last. Finally, Carl allows himself to acknowledge what happened to him all those years ago, and face the question that's been idling in his mind for a quarter of a century: where did the ransom go? And if he were ever to find the money, would it finally give him and his family the closure they've been yearning for?

Long Island Compromise spans generations, winding through decades of history all the way through to the wild present, dealing along the way with all the mainstays of American Jewish life. And through it all, it addresses timeless questions about wealth, trauma, and the American soul.

Not gonna sugarcoat this: Long Island Compromise is the best book I've read this year. You do not want to miss it - Harlan Coben

Very, very good. Dare I say . . . I liked it even more than Fleishman - Elizabeth Day

This book is DYNAMITE. Inhaled it in two sittings - Caitlin Moran

An ambitious, funny family drama . . . Lavishly comic - Susie Goldsbrough, The Times

Elegant and devastating . . . A rich, stylish, moving and funny novel . . . Every reader will find something here that they can recognise, that will resonate and endure - Erica Wagner, Financial Times

[A] scabrous satire of the super-rich . . . Brodesser-Akner is a keen observer of class aspiration as a survival method. - Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker

A lip-smacking tale of family, wealth and self-destruction told with relish - John Self, Guardian

Is this book as good [as Fleishman]? It's better. Sprawling yet nimble, this is her Big American Reform Jewish Novel . . . All those well-timed twists, neat callbacks and tidy scenes are a mitzvah for this satisfying, touching novel. The talented Taffy Brodesser-Akner over here - Sloane Crosley, The New York Times

Brodesser-Akner had me at "hello" with this opening line from her raucous and ravishing Long Island Compromise, an epic family saga that joins the ranks of such great American novels as The Corrections and Middlesex . . . This author's talents are boundless . . . A humane, brazen, gorgeous novel whose words dance exuberantly on the page - Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times

This novel needs to come with a health warning: don't take it on a crowded train. You will laugh inappropriately and frequently, and start reading whole passages aloud to complete strangers who catch your eye. Long Island Compromise is everything I was dreaming it would be -- shocking, tender, profound and delicious - Emily Maitlis

Completely engrossing and absorbing; both enjoyable and funny while also substantive and profound - Cathy Rentzenbrink

The pleasure of Brodesser-Akner's writing is her ability to make us consider a weighty subject in a way that feels thrillingly original . . . Greatness comes so often at the expense of what is enjoyable. Long Island Compromise is both, and then some - Marianne Levy, iPaper

The status book you'll want to be seen with. As ever, Taffy Brodesser-Akner proves she's a master at uncovering the hdiden human emotions that connect us all, regardless of who we are - Otegha Uwagba, Stylist

Long Island Compromise interrogates wealth, status, dysfunctional relationships and inherited trauma, all with Brodesser-Akner's typically incisive brand of wit - Anna Bonet, iPaper

Exuberant and absorbing . . . Long Island Compromise is ingeniously plotted, its various storylines building toward several extremely satisfying plot twists -- by which I mean the best kind of twists, ones that are earned, that make the reader simultaneously gasp in surprise and want to hit oneself because, in retrospect, they make so much sense that there's no excuse for not having seen them coming . . . Like Franzen's, Brodesser-Akner's sympathies are broad and deep, and like him, she is a person on whom nothing is lost . . . She is also, like him, a sly and stylish writer, adept at using comedy and clever comedic framing to plumb the depths of her characters' misery - Adelle Waldman, Atlantic

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

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American journalist and author, Taffy Brodesser-Akner was born on October 26, 1975 in New York, growing up in an Orthodox Jewish family. She studied at New York University and married Claude Brodesser, from whom she took her last name.

Brodesser-Akner has worked as a freelance journalist for outlets like GQ, ESPN The Magazine, and Texas Monthly and is a writer at The New York Times. Her articles on celebrities have earned her awards such as the New York Press Club Award and the Mirror Award.

In 2019, she published her first book, Fleishman Is In Trouble, which was released in Spanish under the title Fleishman está en apuros. With it, she was nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020.

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