Friendship

Name: Friendship
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Emily Gould
ISBN: 9781494575656

Author: Emily Gould

Narrator: Amy Rubinate

Unabridged: 7 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/23/2014

Categories: Fiction, Women

Synopsis

Bev Tunney and Amy Schein have been best friends for years; now, at thirty, they're at a crossroads. Bev is a Midwestern striver still mourning a years-old romantic catastrophe. Amy is an East Coast princess whose luck and charm have too long allowed her to cruise through life. Bev is stuck in circumstances that would have barely passed for bohemian in her mid-twenties. Amy is still riding the tailwinds of her early success, but her habit of burning bridges is finally catching up to her. And now Bev is pregnant. As Bev and Amy are dragged, kicking and screaming, into real adulthood, they have to face the possibility that growing up might mean growing apart.

Friendship, Emily Gould's debut novel, traces the evolution of a friendship with humor and wry sympathy. This is a story about the way we speak and live today, about the ways we disappoint and betray one another. At once a meditation on the modern meaning of maturity and a timeless portrait of the underexamined bond that exists between friends, this exacting and truthful novel is a revelation.

About Emily Gould

Emily Gould is the author of And the Heart Says Whatever and co-owner, with Ruth Curry, of the feminist publishing start-up Emily Books, which sells new and backlist titles via a subscription model. A former editor at Gawker, she has written extensively for a number of publications, including the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Poetry magazine, the Economist, Slate, and Jezebel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Oriana on November 16, 2015

First let me please beseech you not to read the goddamn jacket copy, which is full of reveals. It also has an endorsement by my sworn enemy Tao Lin which is just as awful as any of his books and basically looks like notes he wrote to himself that he maybe thought he'd later craft into a real sentenc......more

Goodreads review by Patrick on January 17, 2014

"Things were happening to her. They were bad things, but at least they were happening." I'm a fan of Emily Gould, kind of just in general. I like her internet writing and I liked her collection of essays, and I think she has one of the most interesting businesses around, one that's built on taste and......more

Goodreads review by Leanne on January 28, 2015

I liked this book, but it was just nothing special. It wasn't dark and stormy and serious the whole way through, but it also wasn't really funny. The writing was smart enough to elevate it above the "chick-lit" label, but it wasn't good enough to wow me (and I was expecting more after reading some o......more

Goodreads review by switterbug (Betsey) on June 27, 2014

As I was reading this book, I kept thinking of how it evolved like an indie movie with Greta Gerwig and Miranda July, or a Carey Mulligan type. It takes some conventional tropes of fiction and edge-cuts it with less plot, and lots of inner dialogue, as well as tart conversations. The story could be......more