Everything Happens Today
Jesse Browner
(Author)
Description
"A stupendous, thought-provoking, devilishly delicious novel that reads like Zen koan meets Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . . . Highly recommended" (Library Journal, starred review).
Everything Happens Today records a single day in the life of Wes, a seventeen-year-old who attends Manhattan's elite Dalton School and lives in Greenwich Village in a dilapidated town house with his terminally ill mother, distant father, and beloved younger sister. In the course of one day everything will happen to Wes: he will lose his virginity to the wrong girl and break his own heart, try to meet a Monday morning deadline for a paper on War and Peace, and prepare an elaborate supper he hopes will reunite his family. Wes struggles through the day deep in thoughts of sex, love, Beatles lyrics, friendship, God, and French cuisine--a typical teenager with an atypical mind, a memorable young man who comes to the poignant understanding of how fragile but attainable personal happiness can be.
"A deeply compassionate novel by a very fine writer." --Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland
Product Details
| Publisher | Europa Editions |
| Publish Date | September 27, 2011 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781609450519 |
| Dimensions | 8.2 X 5.3 X 0.8 inches | 0.7 pounds |
About the Author
Reviews
"A deeply compassionate novel by a very fine writer."
--Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland
"Browner (The Uncertain Hour) has crafted a stupendous, thought-provoking, devilishly delicious novel that reads like Zen koan meets Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man with some modern "english" that sets the plate spinning. Highly recommended."
--Library Journal (starred review)
"A light, modern and keen look at the discord between whimsy and prudence."
--Kirkus Reviews
--Michael Lukas, San Francisco Chronicle
"If I say that Jesse Browner's The Uncertain Hour is a truly original work of art, I hope I won't scare anyone off. It's also the most engrossing page-turner I've picked up in a long while."
--Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours
--Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times
"The Uncertain Hour is...elegant meditation on such matters as the nature of love, what makes a good life, and whether there can be such a thing as a perfect death. I don't know which to praise more: the author's feat of historical reconstruction, or his boundless powers of invention."
--Sigrid Nunez, author of The Last of Her Kind
"A deeply compassionate novel by a very fine writer." Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland
"Browner (The Uncertain Hour) has crafted a stupendous, thought- provoking, devilishly delicious novel that reads like Zen koan meets Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man with some modern "english" that sets the plate spinning. Highly recommended. " Library Journal (starred review)
"A light, modern and keen look at the discord between whimsy and prudence." Kirkus"
"A light, modern and keen look at the discord between whimsy and prudence."--- Kirkus
"Browner (The Uncertain Hour) has crafted a stupendous, thought- provoking, devilishly delicious novel that reads like Zen koan meets Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man with some modern "english" that sets the plate spinning. Highly recommended. "--- Library Journal (starred review)
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