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All the Houses by Karen Olsson (2015, Hardcover)

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ISBN
9780374281328
Book Title
All the Houses
Item Length
8.5 in
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication Year
2015
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.3 in
Author
Karen Olsson
Genre
Fiction
Topic
General, Literary
Item Width
5.9 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Number of Pages
416 Pages

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A b ittersweet, biting, sharply observed family drama from the author of Waterloo After her father has a heart attack and subsequent surgery, Helen Atherton returns to her hometown of Washington, D.C., to help take care of him and, perhaps more honestly, herself. She's been living in Los Angeles, trying to work in Hollywood, slowly spiraling into a depression fueled by hours spent watching C-SPAN-her obsession with politics a holdover from a childhood interrupted by her father's involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal. "I don't know whether to think of him as a coconspirator or a complicit bystander or just someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time." Though the rest of the world has forgotten that scandal, the Atherton family never quite recovered. While living with her father in her childhood home, Helen tries to piece together the political moves that pulled her family apart. All the Houses is, at its heart, a father-daughter story. With razor-sharp prose, an alluring objectivity, and a dry sense of humor, Karen Olsson writes about the shape-shifting of our family relationships when outside forces work their way in-how Washington turns people into unnatural versions of themselves, how problematic and overbearing sisters can be, and how familial nostalgia that sets in during early adulthood can prove counterproductive to actually becoming an adult.

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374281327
ISBN-13
9780374281328
eBay Product ID (ePID)
118878139

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Book Title
All the Houses
Author
Karen Olsson
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
416 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Item Weight
18 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3615.L755a79 2015
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"Karen Olsson's All the Houses is as grand as it is intimate-an exquisite, precisely layered, and somehow almost magically suspenseful portrait of a family, a city, and a political culture that's impossible to tear away from." -- Dinaw Mengestu, author of All Our Names "A patriarch's health falters. A lost daughter returns, stepping back into the long shadow of political scandal that has eroded her family. This is the stage Karen Olsson sets in her magnificent second novel, and she explores questions of loyalty and culpability, of secrecy and identity, with delicious complexity and knife-sharp humor. All the Houses is a stunning portrait of a family forced to reckon with their public legacy and, most of all, their private selves." -- Laura van den Berg, author of Find Me "Written with wry humor, penetrating insight, and big-hearted sincerity, Karen Olsson's All the Houses is a wise, contemplative book about the stories that shape a childhood, the traumas that shape a family, and the politics that shape a nation. But it is also something much more: the extremely rare kind of novel whose characters are so true-so richly drawn, subtly nuanced, and intimately observed-that you start to feel that it isn't a book you are holding in your hands. It's a living thing." -- Stefan Merrill Block, author of The Story of Forgetting and The Storm at the Door "Politics and family may make strange bedfellows, but in the knowing and amusing novel All the Houses , Olsson makes them inseparable. Add another name alongside those writers who have so effectively made Washington a literary landscape." --Bruce Jacobs, Shelf Awareness "In today's world of 15 minutes of fame, Olsson ( Waterloo ) illustrates how the public may forget history, but, nearly 20 years later, the fallout of a political disgrace continues to affect families. The strength of Olsson's novel is her subtle unveiling of a small circle of Washington fathers whose long hours working behind closed doors impact their wives, children, and themselves." -- Library Journal, A patriarch's health falters. A lost daughter returns, stepping back into the long shadow of political scandal that has eroded her family. This is the stage Karen Olsson sets in her magnificent second novel, and she explores questions of loyalty and culpability, of secrecy and identity, with delicious complexity and knife-sharp humor. All the Houses is a stunning portrait of a family forced to reckon with their public legacy and, most of all, their private selves., Written with wry humor, penetrating insight, and big-hearted sincerity, Karen Olsson's All the Houses is a wise, contemplative book about the stories that shape a childhood, the traumas that shape a family, and the politics that shape a nation. But it is also something much more: the extremely rare kind of novel whose characters are so true-so richly drawn, subtly nuanced, and intimately observed-that you start to feel that it isn't a book you are holding in your hands. It's a living thing., Karen Olsson's All the Houses is as grand as it is intimate-an exquisite, precisely layered, and somehow almost magically suspenseful portrait of a family, a city, and a political culture that's impossible to tear away from., "Karen Olsson's All the Houses is as grand as it is intimate-an exquisite, precisely layered, and somehow almost magically suspenseful portrait of a family, a city, and a political culture that's impossible to tear away from." -- Dinaw Mengestu, author of All Our Names "A patriarch's health falters. A lost daughter returns, stepping back into the long shadow of political scandal that has eroded her family. This is the stage Karen Olsson sets in her magnificent second novel, and she explores questions of loyalty and culpability, of secrecy and identity, with delicious complexity and knife-sharp humor. All the Houses is a stunning portrait of a family forced to reckon with their public legacy and, most of all, their private selves." -- Laura van den Berg, author of Find Me "Written with wry humor, penetrating insight, and big-hearted sincerity, Karen Olsson's All the Houses is a wise, contemplative book about the stories that shape a childhood, the traumas that shape a family, and the politics that shape a nation. But it is also something much more: the extremely rare kind of novel whose characters are so true-so richly drawn, subtly nuanced, and intimately observed-that you start to feel that it isn't a book you are holding in your hands. It's a living thing." -- Stefan Merrill Block, author of The Story of Forgetting and The Storm at the Door, For readers anywhere, All the Houses offers a rich exploration of the stubborn strangeness of parents and siblings, but for Washingtonians, the book also provides the uncanny pleasure of seeing our town's mores examined with precision and sensitivity . . . With its wry humor and gentle insights into the way we draw away from one another at exactly the wrong time, All the Houses is more than just an illuminating story about the nameless victims of political scandal. It's a story about how our insecurities encourage us to smother our affections -- and a reminder that we're running out of time to make amends. --Ron Charles, The Washington Post "In [ All the Houses ] Olsson never overplays her hand -- while there's plenty of emotional tension, she never succumbs to melodrama; every character is remarkably real . . . All the Houses isn't really about Iran-Contra; it's about a family trying to piece itself together after being broken in a public way. Olsson handles her subjects gently; she's not afraid to show her characters' flaws, but she treats them all with a real sense of sympathy. And she writes with a clear eye that's free from sentimental nostalgia, even though nostalgia is, in a way, a central subject of the book." --Michael Schaub, NPR "Karen Olsson's All the Houses is as grand as it is intimate-an exquisite, precisely layered, and somehow almost magically suspenseful portrait of a family, a city, and a political culture that's impossible to tear away from." -- Dinaw Mengestu, author of All Our Names "A patriarch's health falters. A lost daughter returns, stepping back into the long shadow of political scandal that has eroded her family. This is the stage Karen Olsson sets in her magnificent second novel, and she explores questions of loyalty and culpability, of secrecy and identity, with delicious complexity and knife-sharp humor. All the Houses is a stunning portrait of a family forced to reckon with their public legacy and, most of all, their private selves." -- Laura van den Berg, author of Find Me "Written with wry humor, penetrating insight, and big-hearted sincerity, Karen Olsson's All the Houses is a wise, contemplative book about the stories that shape a childhood, the traumas that shape a family, and the politics that shape a nation. But it is also something much more: the extremely rare kind of novel whose characters are so true-so richly drawn, subtly nuanced, and intimately observed-that you start to feel that it isn't a book you are holding in your hands. It's a living thing." -- Stefan Merrill Block, author of The Story of Forgetting and The Storm at the Door "Politics and family may make strange bedfellows, but in the knowing and amusing novel All the Houses , Olsson makes them inseparable. Add another name alongside those writers who have so effectively made Washington a literary landscape." --Bruce Jacobs, Shelf Awareness "In today's world of 15 minutes of fame, Olsson ( Waterloo ) illustrates how the public may forget history, but, nearly 20 years later, the fallout of a political disgrace continues to affect families. The strength of Olsson's novel is her subtle unveiling of a small circle of Washington fathers whose long hours working behind closed doors impact their wives, children, and themselves." -- Library Journal, For readers anywhere, All the Houses offers a rich exploration of the stubborn strangeness of parents and siblings, but for Washingtonians, the book also provides the uncanny pleasure of seeing our town's mores examined with precision and sensitivity . . . With its wry humor and gentle insights into the way we draw away from one another at exactly the wrong time, All the Houses is more than just an illuminating story about the nameless victims of political scandal. It's a story about how our insecurities encourage us to smother our affections -- and a reminder that we're running out of time to make amends. --Ron Charles, The Washington Post "In [ All the Houses ] Olsson never overplays her hand -- while there's plenty of emotional tension, she never succumbs to melodrama; every character is remarkably real . . . All the Houses isn't really about Iran-Contra; it's about a family trying to piece itself together after being broken in a public way. Olsson handles her subjects gently; she's not afraid to show her characters' flaws, but she treats them all with a real sense of sympathy. And she writes with a clear eye that's free from sentimental nostalgia, even though nostalgia is, in a way, a central subject of the book. It's a funny, sweet and beautifully written novel about a young woman trying to make sense of both her family and her nation's history, which have become more intertwined for her than most people would be able to understand. Olsson makes a wonderful case for dealing with the past and trying to move on, even when it's painful. --Michael Schaub, NPR "Karen Olsson's All the Houses is as grand as it is intimate-an exquisite, precisely layered, and somehow almost magically suspenseful portrait of a family, a city, and a political culture that's impossible to tear away from." -- Dinaw Mengestu, author of All Our Names "A patriarch's health falters. A lost daughter returns, stepping back into the long shadow of political scandal that has eroded her family. This is the stage Karen Olsson sets in her magnificent second novel, and she explores questions of loyalty and culpability, of secrecy and identity, with delicious complexity and knife-sharp humor. All the Houses is a stunning portrait of a family forced to reckon with their public legacy and, most of all, their private selves." -- Laura van den Berg, author of Find Me "Written with wry humor, penetrating insight, and big-hearted sincerity, Karen Olsson's All the Houses is a wise, contemplative book about the stories that shape a childhood, the traumas that shape a family, and the politics that shape a nation. But it is also something much more: the extremely rare kind of novel whose characters are so true-so richly drawn, subtly nuanced, and intimately observed-that you start to feel that it isn't a book you are holding in your hands. It's a living thing." -- Stefan Merrill Block, author of The Story of Forgetting and The Storm at the Door "Politics and family may make strange bedfellows, but in the knowing and amusing novel All the Houses , Olsson makes them inseparable. Add another name alongside those writers who have so effectively made Washington a literary landscape." --Bruce Jacobs, Shelf Awareness "In today's world of 15 minutes of fame, Olsson ( Waterloo ) illustrates how the public may forget history, but, nearly 20 years later, the fallout of a political disgrace continues to affect families. The strength of Olsson's novel is her subtle unveiling of a small circle of Washington fathers whose long hours working behind closed doors impact their wives, children, and themselves." -- Library Journal, Praise for Waterloo "A melancholy comedy of Texas politics [written] with great wit and assurance." -Mark Costello, The New York Times Book Review "A funny, intelligent novel about people who are at odds and at home with each other." -James Whorton Jr., The Washington Post
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2015-023333
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Dewey Edition
23

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