The Adults

Name: The Adults
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Alison Espach
ISBN: 9781611200454

Author: Alison Espach

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 10 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 02/08/2011

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

In her ruefully funny and wickedly perceptive debut novel, Alison Espach deftly dissects matters of the heart and captures the lives of children and adults as they come to terms with life, death, and love. At the center of this affluent suburban universe is Emily Vidal, a smart and snarky teenager, who gets involved in a suspect relationship with one of the adults after witnessing a suicide in her neighborhood. Among the cast of unforgettable characters is Emily's father, whose fiftieth birthday party has the adults descending upon the Vidal's patio; her mother, who has orchestrated the elaborate party even though she and her husband are getting a divorce; and an assortment of eccentric neighbors, high school teachers, and teenagers who teem with anxiety and sexuality and an unbridled desire to be noticed, and ultimately loved. Download and listen to The Adults: A Novel by Alison Espach on your favorite device today!

About Alison Espach

Alison Espach is the author of the novels The Adults, a New York Times Editors' Choice and a Barnes & Noble Discover pick, and Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance, which was named a best book of 2022 by the Chicago Tribune and NPR. Her short stories and essays have appeared in McSweeneyâ€™s, Vogue, Outside, Joyland, and other places. She is a professor of creative writing at Providence College in Rhode Island.

Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on March 03, 2025

you like one book by an author and suddenly you're reading their entire backlist (review to come / thanks to the publisher for the copy)......more

Goodreads review by Ilenia on September 14, 2023

L'adolescenza è un'età paradossale che richiede una scrittura biforcuta: comica e drammatica, realistica e visionaria, brutale e immaginifica. Allison Espach, scrittrice dalla verve malinconica, è la regina della battuta inaspettata, apparentemente fuori posto e fuori tempo. Ma il linguaggio è uno s......more

Goodreads review by Larissa on March 05, 2011

(Yes, there are spoilers.) I heard about Allison Espach's debut novel, The Adults because, as a resident of Fort Greene/Clinton Hill, Brooklyn herself, she was going to be reading at my local bookstore. Her novel--and its heroine, the disenchanted fourteen-year-old Emily Vidal--seem to promise a fres......more

Goodreads review by Danielle on September 18, 2022

I love everything Alison Espach writes with all my heart. There's something about her prose that I can't really put my finger on but I love it and I love how her stories span years so we're following these girls through different phases of life(Emily in this one, Sally in Notes). I never get tired of......more

Goodreads review by Chiara on September 19, 2023

Non so perché tutto ciò che scrive Alison Espach fa sempre così dannatamente male......more