1753286Evenings and Weekendshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/evenings-and-weekends-2/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1161144/cd389508-cdc3-4248-ae27-b57fa361bf2f.jpg?v=638756524845830000379462MXNHarperCollinsInStock/Ebooks/This is such a love story to cities & people & heartbreaks, death & loss. Its not at all corny, its smart. But I just finished it & it made me cry. Eileen Myles"Signals the arrival of a novelist sure to resonate with young people who endeavor to make intimate connections." The Washington PostFor fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a stunning debut that follows a vibrant multi-generational cast of characters through a London heatwave as their simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over a feverish, life-changing weekend.Summer in London stops for no one. Not the half-naked drunks and stoners, the bachelorette parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried cigarettes. Its June 2019, and everyone has converged on the citys parks, beer gardens, and street corners to revel in the collective joys of being alive.Everyone but Maggie. Shes 30, pregnant, and broke. Faced with moving back to the town she fought to escape, shes wondering if having a baby with boyfriend Ed will be the last spontaneous act of her life. Ed, meanwhile, is trying to run from his past with Maggies best friend Phil and harboring secret dreams of his own.Phil hates his office job and is living for the weekend, while falling for his housemate, Keith. But theres a problem: Keith has a boyfriend and there might not be room for three people in the relationship. Then theres Rosaleen, Phils mother, whos tired of feeling like a side character in her own life. Shes just been diagnosed with cancer and is travelling to London to tell Phil, if she can ever get hold of him.As Saturday night approaches, all their lives are set to change forever. Temperatures are soaring and the weekend is about to beginStrikingly heartfelt, sexually charged, and disarmingly comic, Oisín McKennas debut is a mesmerizing dive into the soul of a city and a searing look at what it takes to build a life there....1727087Evenings and Weekends379462https://www.gandhi.com.mx/evenings-and-weekends-2/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1161144/cd389508-cdc3-4248-ae27-b57fa361bf2f.jpg?v=638756524845830000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249780063319998_W3siaWQiOiI4MTk4MjM1ZS1lZjc3LTQ2ZDctOTMzOS0xY2M1ZGNmYjI3ODIiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjQ1MCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjgxLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjM2OSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMzFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780063319998_For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters during a heatwave in London as simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over one life-changing weekend.London, 2019. Its the hottest June on record, and a whale is stuck in the Thames River. In the streets of the city, four old acquaintances want more from life than theyve been given. On the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, their paths will intersect at a party that will change their lives foreverMaggie, a once-hopeful artist turned waitress, is pregnant and preparing to move back to her hometown with her boyfriend and father-to-be Ed, leaving the city she loves and the life she imagined for herself.Ed, coasting through life as a barely competent bike courier, is ready for a new start with Maggie and their baby, if only to finally leave behind his secret past of hooking up with strange men in train station bathroomsand his secret past with Maggies best friend, Phil.Phil, who sleepwalks through his office job and lives for the weekends, is on the brink of achieving his first real relationship with his roommate Keith. The two live in an illegal warehouse commune with other quirky creatives and idealiststhe site of the party to end all parties.As the temperature continues to climb, Maggie, Ed, and Phil will have to confront their shared pasts, current desires, and limits of their future lives together before the weekend is over.Strikingly heartfelt, sexually charged, and disarmingly comic, Oisín McKennas addictive, page-turning debut is a mesmerizing dive into the soul of a city and a critical look at the political, emotional, and financial hurdles facing young adults trying to build lives there and often living for their evenings and weekends....(*_*)9780063319998_This is such a love story to cities & people & heartbreaks, death & loss. Its not at all corny, its smart. But I just finished it & it made me cry. Eileen Myles"Signals the arrival of a novelist sure to resonate with young people who endeavor to make intimate connections." The Washington Post"Like the book version of a Richard Curtis film, but with more grit, more bathroom sex and a literal beached whale." GQFor fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a stunning debut that follows a vibrant multi-generational cast of characters through a London heatwave as their simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over a feverish, life-changing weekend.Summer in London stops for no one. Not the half-naked drunks and stoners, the bachelorette parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried cigarettes. Its June 2019, and everyone has converged on the citys parks, beer gardens, and street corners to revel in the collective joys of being alive.Everyone but Maggie. Shes 30, pregnant, and broke. Faced with moving back to the town she fought to escape, shes wondering if having a baby with boyfriend Ed will be the last spontaneous act of her life. Ed, meanwhile, is trying to run from his past with Maggies best friend Phil and harboring secret dreams of his own.Phil hates his office job and is living for the weekend, while falling for his housemate, Keith. But theres a problem: Keith has a boyfriend and there might not be room for three people in the relationship. Then theres Rosaleen, Phils mother, whos tired of feeling like a side character in her own life. Shes just been diagnosed with cancer and is travelling to London to tell Phil, if she can ever get hold of him.As Saturday night approaches, all their lives are set to change forever. Temperatures are soaring and the weekend is about to beginStrikingly heartfelt, sexually charged, and disarmingly comic, Oisín McKennas debut is a mesmerizing dive into the soul of a city and a searing look at what it takes to build a life there....9780063319998_HarperCollinslibro_electonico_a37429cd-dd4a-326d-9c38-90ae9ca870f3_9780063319998;9780063319998_9780063319998Oisín McKennaInglésMéxico2024-07-02T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/harpercollins-epub-ef67494c-3142-452c-8744-16426e72e3ce.epub2024-07-02T00:00:00+00:00HarperCollins