Karen dukess

In this delightfully funny and heartfelt new novel from the author of the “bittersweet page-turner” (The New York Times) The Last Book Party, an American woman travels to the English countryside when she discovers tickets her late mother had purchased for a murder mystery simulation in a small British town. When thirty-four-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath consciously avoids the impulsive, thrill-seeking lifestyle that her mother once led. But when she’s forced to go through her mother’s things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming “murder week” in England’s Peak District: a whole town has come together to stage a fake murder mystery to attract tourism to their quaint hamlet. Baffled but helplessly intrigued by her mother’s secret purchase, Cath decides to go on the trip herself—and begins a journey she never could have anticipated. Teaming up with her two cottage-mates, both ardent mystery lovers—Wyatt Green, who works unhappily in his husband’s birding store, and Amity Clark, a divorced romance writer struggling with her novels—Cath sets about solving the “crime” and begins to unravel shocking truths about her mother along the way. Amidst a fling—or something more—with the handsome local maker of artisanal gin, Cath and her irresistible charming fellow sleuths will find this week of fake murder may help them face up to a very real crossroads in their own lives. “Full of intrigue and adventure, charm and heart” (Amy Poeppel, author of The Sweet Spot), Welcome to Murder Week is a fresh, inventive twist on the murder mystery and a touching portrayal of one daughter’s reckoning with grief, her past—and her own budding sense of adventure.

In this delightfully funny and heartfelt new novel from the author of the “bittersweet page-turner” (The New York Times) The Last Book Party, an American woman travels to the English countryside when she discovers tickets her late mother had purchased for a murder mystery simulation in a small British town. When thirty-four-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath consciously avoids the impulsive, thrill-seeking lifestyle that her mother once led. But when she’s forced to go through her mother’s things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming “murder week” in England’s Peak District: a whole town has come together to stage a fake murder mystery to attract tourism to their quaint hamlet. Baffled but helplessly intrigued by her mother’s secret purchase, Cath decides to go on the trip herself—and begins a journey she never could have anticipated. Teaming up with her two cottage-mates, both ardent mystery lovers—Wyatt Green, forty, who works unhappily in his husband’s birding store, and Amity Clark, fifty, a divorced romance writer struggling with her novels—Cath sets about solving the “crime” and begins to unravel shocking truths about her mother along the way. Amidst a fling—or something more—with the handsome local maker of artisanal gin, Cath and her irresistibly charming fellow sleuths will find this week of fake murder may help them face up to a very real crossroads in their own lives. Witty, wise, and deliciously escapist, Welcome to Murder Week is a fresh, inventive twist on the murder mystery and a touching portrayal of one daughter’s reckoning with her grief, her past—and her own budding sense of adventure.

Paeluv lugu ambitsioonist ja tunnetest 1980ndate New Yorgi kirjastamismaailmas ja Cape Codi imelistel randadel. On 1987. aasta suvi ja 25-aastane kirjanikuks pürgiv Eve Rosen vindub igaval assistendikohal, suutmata vabaneda oma geniaalse venna varjust. Kuna Eve'i karjäär ei taha kuidagi edeneda, haarab ta kinni võimalusest osaleda varasuvisel koosviibimisel New Yorkeri tuntud autori Henry Grey ja tema poetessist abikaasa Tillie' Cape Codi suvekodus. Lummatuna nende külalistest ja kirjanikupaari boheemlaslikust pojast, võtab Eve vastu Henry Grey pakkumise ja asub tööle tema uurimisassistendina. Samuti avaneb tal võimalus osaleda Henry ja Tillie' kuulsal ja eksklusiivsel raamatupeol, milles osalejad peavad end riietama mõneks raamatukangelaseks. Peoõhtuks avastab aga Eve mitu ebameeldivat tõde oma suviste afääride kohta ja mõistab, et kirjandusmaailm, kuhu ta nii väga kuuluda tahtis, ei ole kaugeltki selline, nagu paistab." Viimane raamatupidu" on paeluv täiskasvanuks saamise lugu ning kirja pandud lüürilise kohatunnetuse ja vankumatu usuga raamatute püsivasse mõjujõudu, ning näitab, mis juhtub, kui põrkuvad noorus ja kogemus, ning mida on vaja, et leida enda hääl. "Haarav, intelligentne, seksikas ja iseäralik "Viimane raamatupidu" kutsub meid 1980ndate kirjanduseliidi pahelisse maailma... See on hõrk ja vaimselt nauditav ajaviide." - Julia Phillips"Naljakas ja sulnilt melanhoolne romaan noorusest ja küpsemast east, romantikast, kaunitest randadest ja peamiselt raamatutest - nende kirjutamisest, nende lugemisest ja sellest, mida kõike need meile õpetavad. Karen Dukessi "Viimane raamatupidu" pakub tõelist naudingut." - Cathleen Schine"Lugu nii täiskasvanuks saamisest kui ka kõmujanuline pilk kirjanike, kirjastajate, luuletajate ja kunstnike suletud maailma, kui nood põgenesid suviti Bostoni ja New Yorgi kuumuse eest, et vestelda, juua ja töötada Cape Codil. Pisut nostalgiline debüüt on kirjandussõpradele ideaalne lugemiselamus." - Library Journal"Karen Dukess on kirjutanud kaasaegse, kuid samas ajatu täiskasvanuks saamise loo sõprusest, armastusest ja ühe noore naise keerukatest suhetest kirjandusilma superstaaride riukalikult võluva perekonna liikmetega." - Ann Mah

"The Last Book Party is a delight. I found myself nodding along in so many moments and dreading the last page. Karen Dukess has rendered a wonderful world to spend time in."--Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six Eve Rosen is invited into a seductive, literary world she thinks will turn her into a writer. But will she have to lose herself to find her own voice? In the 1980s, famed New Yorker writer Henry Grey and his poet wife Tillie throw Cape Cod's most unmissable party each summer's end, a legendary f te for the literary elite. Twenty-five-year-old aspiring writer Eve Rosen finagles her way into this Gatsbyesque orbit, which is completely different from her conventional, Jewish upbringing. But moving into one sphere means leaving another behind, and as Eve tries to negotiate the differences between her family values and this glittering world, she learns the risks of unbridled ambition and the importance of making her own choices about who she wants to be. Lyrically evoking a bygone era with contemporary resonance, The Last Book Party charts Eve's soundings as she learns to navigate the deep waters of sex, love, and life over the course of one fateful summer. Poignant, unerringly wise, and delightfully funny, Dukess's debut tells the universal coming-of-age story of finding our way and our voice, one misstep and one false note at a time.

Learning never stops, from first steps and arithmetic through being hired and fired and falling in and out of love. This volume celebrates rites of passage-life lessons-with stories first performed for a live audience at Vassar College.