These Days Are Ours
Author(s): Michelle Haimoff
This is a vivid and irresistible coming-of-age story for the Lena Dunham generation, set in New York and personally recommended to Penguin by bestselling author Nick Hornby (Fever Pitch, About a Boy). New York City, six months after 9/11: everything has changed and nothing has. Hailey graduated college months ago but she's still living in her family's Fifth Avenue penthouse, spending her nights falling in and out of bars across Upper East Side Manhattan - and the thrill is starting to wear off. It isn't easy being young, rich and beautiful. Overnight, it seems like everyone suddenly has their lives completely sorted. Katie has a great job at Morgan Stanley, Michael Brenner is training to be a human rights lawyer and trust-fund kid Randy is just content to carry on having fun. Hailey is lost somewhere in the middle, torn between chasing down the next wild party and admitting that it might be time to grow up. She craves something more meaningful - but what? Perhaps Brenner holds the answer: gorgeous, charismatic and aloof, Hailey is convinced he is the missing piece in her puzzle. But when she meets Adrian, a man so totally different from her usual privileged crowd, she begins to realise she's been looking for happiness in all the wrong places...These Days Are Ours is brimming with the feverish chaos of youth. It perfectly captures that exhilarating time in your twenties when it's impossible to know where you are going in life.
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These Days Are Ours is needle-sharp, utterly authentic, funny, and soaked in the particular melancholy that shrouded New York at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Michelle Haimoff is a literary Whit Stillman, and I tore through her novel with enormous enjoyment. -- Nick Hornby, bestselling author of 'About A Boy' and 'How To Be Good' Smart, witty, honest, and never anything less than utterly engaging -- Jonathan Tropper, author of 'How to Talk to a Widower' Engrossing ... Haimoff's writing resonates with an authenticity and gravitas that books about girls trying to find themselves in the big city often lack. Her details about elite schools and childhood haunts in Manhattan pepper Hailey's memories in often touching ways. A thoughtful novel for our time Publishers Weekly
Michelle Haimoff is a writer and blogger whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, PsychologyToday.com and The Huffington Post. She is a founding memebr of NOW-New York State's Young Feminist Task Force and blogs about feminist issues at genfem.com. She was raised in New York City, curently lives in Los Angeles, and can be found online at MichelleHaimoff.com. These Days Are Ours is her first novel.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 01 September 2014
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 November 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : Michelle Haimoff
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 813.6
- : 304