{"product_id":"9780062021212","title":"Ten Thousand Saints : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eTen Thousand Saints\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Eleanor Henderson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every scene, every perspective, every fleeting impression, every impulse and desire.... She is never ironic or underwhelmed; her preferred mode is fierce, devoted and elegiac.”\u003cbr\u003e“One of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2011…[A] raucous first novel”\u003cbr\u003e“Rarely has a coming-of-age novel captured a time and place-here the late 1980s on Manhattan’s Lower East Side-with such perfect pitch. Grade: A”\u003cbr\u003e“[Henderson] has a perfect ear for conversation between siblings; the way a lazy spat can turn into a grudging moment of closeness. And the euphoria of the straight edge movement that Jude and Johnny embrace suffuses the novel with a reckless, glib joy…a bittersweet, lovely book.”\u003cbr\u003e“The best and most lyrically written coming-of-age novel of the year.”\u003cbr\u003e“[A] rare debut that, with a flinty kind of nostalgia, invokes both the gods and demons of a generation.”\u003cbr\u003e“An irresistibly rich and engrossing novel…poignant, complex…Henderson brilliantly evokes the gritty energy of New York City in the ‘80s, and the violent euphoria of the music scene. The hard-edged settings highlight the touching vulnerability of young characters.”\u003cbr\u003e“Highbrow\/Brilliant: All the all-star sentences in Eleanor Henderson’s punk-rock-teen novel Ten Thousand Saints.”\u003cbr\u003e“Ten Thousand Saints is a whirling dervish of a first novel—a planet, a universe, a trip. As wild as that may sound, wonder of wonders, the book is also carefully and lovingly created… [Henderson] writes with great compassion but does not flinch”\u003cbr\u003e“[The] reader smells the sweat, blood, urine, beer; hears the crowds screaming; feels herself at times flung into the mosh pit - Henderson shepherds her characters with blatant affection…raucous, wounded, sweet, spasmodically desperate, [Saints] comes to feel like a modern, drug-and-rock-riddled version of Peter Pan…”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780062021212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41071366766798,"sku":"9780062021212","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780062021212.jpg?v=1652146817","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780062021212","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}