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Breakable You
Breakable You | Brian Morton
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Adam Weller is a moderately successful novelist, past his prime, but squiring around a much younger woman and still longing for greater fame and glory. His former wife, Eleanor, is unhappily playing the role of the overweight, discarded woman. Their daughter Maud has just begun a frankly sexual affair that unexpectedly becomes life-changing. Into each of these lives the past intrudes in a way that will test them to their core. With perfect pitch and a rare empathy, Brian Morton is equally adept at portraying the life of the mind and how it plays out in the world, brilliantly tracing the border between honor and violation. Here Morton tells his strongest story yet—a story about love, friendship, literary treachery, and what each of us owes to the past.
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heylaurenmack
Breakable You | Brian Morton
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Trying to put a bigger dent in this one tonight. Anything that has multiple characters revolving around each other unknowingly and switching POVs is right up my ally.

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heylaurenmack
Breakable You | Brian Morton

It‘s hard to comprehend that the dead don‘t care. We know it in our heads, but it‘s hard to feel the truth of it. Dead writers don‘t care about their reputations. Emily Dickinson died in the same condition as anyone else who writes for himself; Herman Melville, at the end of his life was just some local loser, not the awe inspiring author of Moby Dick; neither of them was ever to know the dimensions of their future success.

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kimmypete1
Breakable You | Brian Morton
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This is super accurate right now. Sorry for all the posts at one time, but I work 12 hr days M-W and today and yesterday have been super full days. Not bad, but full. #WinterGames #SlayBells #HolidayLaughs @midnightbookgirl