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*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*<BR><BR>EMBARK ON THE JOYOUS AND NOSTALGIC JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME IN THE LATEST NOVEL FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THIS TIME TOMORROW AND ALL ADULTS HERE<BR><BR>'Pure joy' Ann Patchett<BR>'Fun, delicious, big-hearted' Taylor Jenkins Reid<BR>'So funny and wise and perfectly done' Lena Dunham<BR>'Criminally readable' Maria Semple<BR>'I can't TELL you the enjoyment it gave me' Marian Keyes<BR>'I was completely swept away' Coco Mellors<BR>'You will feel so understood by this novel' Rainbow Rowell<BR>'Unexpectedly hilarious. Cheaper than therapy and a lot more fun!' Holly Brickley<BR>'I longed to be aboard the American Fantasy' Lauren Bravo<BR><BR>---<BR><BR>Annie is on a journey straight back to her past.<BR><BR>When the American Fantasy cruise ship sets sail for a four-day themed voyage, aboard are all five members of a famous 1990s boyband, and three thousand women who have worshipped them since their youth.<BR><BR>Newly divorced and with an empty nest, Annie is on board as a lark to appease her sister. Once a diehard fan of the band as a teen, she now feels out of place amid the sea of bedazzling t-shirts bearing the singers' faces. Yet when the lights go down, the cocktails are poured and the band starts singing, Annie finally reconnects to a long-submerged part of herself.<BR><BR>As she encounters Keith, the band's slightly depressed, fifty-something lead singer - not just a celebrity but someone clearly in need of a friend - she feels like anything is possible.<BR><BR>But is the connection between Annie and Keith just a fantasy? Or is this the beginning of a new chapter for them both?<BR><BR>Full of laugh-out-loud reflections on fame, nostalgia, marriage and growing up, American Fantasy celebrates the magic of revisiting our youth, and the even greater magic of starting anew.<BR><BR>---<BR><BR>PRAISE FOR EMMA STRAUB<BR><BR>'Has all the pleasures of reading one of Anne Tyler's compelling family portraits' NEW YORK TIMES<BR><BR>'Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love' GABRIELLE ZEVIN on This Time Tomorrow<BR><BR>'Smart, compelling, irresistible' LIANE MORIARTY on Modern Lovers<BR><BR>'Her warmth and sense of humour electrify every page' NEW YORK MAGAZINE

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF AMERICAN FANTASY<BR><BR>“The pages brim with tenderness and an appreciation for what we had and who we were. I could not have loved it more."—Ann Patchett<BR><BR>“One of the most moving and intelligent time travel novels I have ever read. Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love."—Gabrielle Zevin<BR><BR>“The kind of book that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you call the people you love. Exceptional."—Emily Henry<BR><BR>What if you could take a vacation to your past?<BR><BR>With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, beloved New York Times bestseller Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes and a different kind of love story.<BR><BR>On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, and her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning, she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her sixteenth birthday. But it isn’t just her adolescent body that shocks her, or seeing her high school crush—it’s her dad, the vital, charming, forty-something version of her father with whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything that she would change if she could?

THE IRRESISTIBLE, UPLIFTING AND BIG-HEARTED STORY OF SURVIVING IN A MODERN FAMILY . . .<BR> <BR> 'A wonderful read' Elizabeth Strout<BR> 'Literary sunshine' New York Times<BR> 'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls<BR> 'The world will love it' Ann Patchett<BR><BR> The instant New York Times BESTSELLER<BR> ________<BR><BR> After Astrid Strick - a widowed, 68-year-old mother of three living in upstate New York - witnesses an accident, she resolves to live more honestly. Starting with the mistakes she made in raising her family.<BR><BR> But are her kids, tangled in their own messy adult lives, really ready to be treated like grown ups?<BR><BR>Charming, uplifting and well-observed, All Adults Here is the delightful story about the wonders and woes of modern family life.<BR> ________<BR><BR> Praise for All Adults Here:<BR><BR>'Perfectly pitched summer reading' Stylist<BR> <BR> 'Smartly observant, wryly witty, big-hearted . . . ' Sunday Times<BR> <BR> 'This beautifully written book delves deeply, perceptively and humorously into the contemporary human condition' Daily Mail<BR> <BR> 'A glorious mash-up of Elizabeth Strout and Gilmore Girls' Red<BR> <BR> 'If you're a fan of Anne Tyler's writing, you'll love this captivating well-observed family drama' Good Housekeeping

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<BR><BR>A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!<BR>"In a time when all we want is hope, it’s a beautiful book to reach for." -Jenna Bush Hager<BR><BR>“Literary sunshine.”—New York Times<BR><BR>“The queen of the summer novel.”—Entertainment Weekly<BR><BR>"Brimming with kindness, forgiveness, humor and love and yet (magically) also a page turner that held me captive until it was finished. This is Emma Straub's absolute best and the world will love it. I love it." —Ann Patchett<BR>  <BR>“An immensely charming and warmhearted book. It’s a vacation for the soul.”—Vox<BR> <BR> A warm, funny, and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of one family--as the kids become parents, grandchildren become teenagers, and a matriarch confronts the legacy of her mistakes. From the New York Times bestselling author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers.<BR><BR><BR>When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days decades earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence?<BR><BR>Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares. But who gets to decide, so many years later, which long-ago lapses were the ones that mattered? Who decides which apologies really count? It might be that only Astrid's thirteen-year-old granddaughter and her new friend really understand the courage it takes to tell the truth to the people you love the most. <BR><BR>In All Adults Here, Emma Straub's unique alchemy of wisdom, humor, and insight come together in a deeply satisfying story about adult siblings, aging parents, high school boyfriends, middle school mean girls, the lifelong effects of birth order, and all the other things that follow us into adulthood, whether we like them to or not.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER from Emma Straub, THE ONE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHORA fiendishly clever, nostalgic, and tender novel about adolescence and middle age, expectation and anticipation, and how we must cherish what we have while there is still time . . . 'Will make you laugh, cry, and call the people you love. Exceptional' EMILY HENRY'Her most emotionally resonant work yet' VOGUE'Has the makings of a dreamy, witty, contemporary classic' EVENING STANDARD'I just finished and I'm crying at its message and its honestly and its utter beauty' JODI PICOULT'A tender, witty David Nicholls-esque tale of familial love' i'A tender tale of time travel. Straub strips back the layers to reveal what's important' STYLIST, 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'________If you could go back, would you do things differently?Alice Stern isn't ready to turn forty. She thought she'd have more time to figure it all out. Above all, she thought she'd have more time with her father, Leonard - but he's lying in a hospital bed and Alice isn't sure if she'll hear his voice again. When she falls asleep outside their old apartment on the night before her birthday, she's surprised to be greeted the next morning by a much younger Leonard, with a sixteenth birthday card for a teenage Alice who, far from clinging to her youth, is hurtling towards adulthood . . . Alice soon discovers how she got back here, to 1996 and her sixteenth birthday, and realises she can keep on coming, whenever she chooses. But faced each time with different versions of her life, and the consequences of her decisions, it's on her not to lose sight of what she wants most . . . ________With her celebrated humour, insight, and heart, Emma Straub cleverly turns all the traditional time travel tropes on their head and delivers a different kind of love story - about the lifelong, reverberating relationship between a parent and child. 'One of the most moving and intelligent time travel novels I have ever read. Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love' GABRIELLE ZEVIN, bestselling author of TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW'Deliciously warm and nostalgic' GILLIAN MCALLISTER, bestselling author of WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME'An excellent time-travelling novel about adolescence and second chances from the always brilliant Emma Straub' METRO'Clever, complex and really rather lovely' BEST'Magical, heart-warming and insightful . . . Warm, wryly funny and melancholic' DAILY EXPRESS'This time-travelling take on a hypothetical return to 1996 and the protagonist's 16th birthday will be enough to remind you to cherish what you have' ELLE'Full of deftly managed plot twists, it's both fun and poignant' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Literary sunshine' New York Times on All Adults Here'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Liane Moriarty'A master of the domestic ensemble drama' Time

** 'It's the beautifully drawn, vibrant characters that make this smart, compelling novel so irresistible.' Liane Moriarty **<BR><BR>From the New York Times Bestselling author of The Vacationers, Emma Straub brings us a sharply observed tale of modern love . . .<BR><BR>Twenty years later and they were supposed to be grown-ups...<BR><BR>Ditmas Park, Brooklyn.<BR>Summer in the city . . .<BR><BR>College friends Elizabeth, Zoe and Andrew had a band, grew up, settled in New York and now they are still living round the corner from one another (and in each other's pockets).<BR><BR>One hot summer as their kids come of age, making those first hesitant steps into adulthood, it's the parents who find that the lives they've so carefully stitched together begin slowly to come apart . . .<BR><BR><BR>'Has all the pleasures of Anne Tyler's compelling family portraits . . . with a Lorrie Moore-like sense of the absurdities of contemporary life' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times<BR><BR>'Really entertaining. The characters are complex and likeable. It's one of those stories that makes you realise that life really does run away from you' Guardian<BR><BR>'Straub's characters thrum off the page. The sort of witty and relatable summer title you'll devour with a contented smack of the lips' Independent<BR><BR>'Funny yet tart, warm yet incisive. I adored it' Red

Alice Stern ha quasi quarant¿anni, vive da sempre nello stesso appartamento di Brooklyn e lavora nell¿ufficio ammissioni della Belvedere, la sua scuola, adorata fin da quando era una bambina. La notte, il rumore della superstrada Brooklyn-Queens la culla fino a farla addormentare. Matt, l¿uomo che frequenta da un pö, vive invece in un altro appartamento, nell¿Upper East Side, e ai due non dispiace affatto l¿idea di non abitare insieme. Alice è una giovane donna di città, libera e moderna. Che nel giorno del suo compleanno Matt possa chiederle di sposarlo, prospettiva per niente improbabile che farebbe felice chiunque, le provoca una piccola stretta allo stomaco. Innanzi tutto per il matrimonio in sé, una istituzione che nel caso dei suoi genitori si è dimostrata fallimentare, ma anche perché le cose non vanno tutte per il verso giusto. Leonard Stern, suo padre, scrittore di un fortunatissimo romanzo di fantascienza, si trova da settimane in un letto d¿ospedale, attaccato a piú macchine, sacche e tubicini di quanti se ne riescano a contare, in una stanza fredda e spoglia dove le luci non vengono mai spente. Quante conversazioni le restano con lui? Potranno dirsi ciò che, in un¿intera vita, non si sono ancora detti? Oppure non c¿è piú tempo? La mattina successiva al giorno del suo quarantesimo compleanno, Alice si sveglia con i postumi di una sbronza memorabile. Si sente strana, si guarda e il suo cuore si tramuta in un muscolo impazzito: è tornata nel suo corpo di sedicenne, la stanza sembra proprio quella di quando era bambina. Poi incontra lo sguardo di suo padre e non riesce a credere ai propri occhi. Leonard è bello, giovane, vitale; somiglia a una star del cinema e le si rivolge con una complicità che Alice non ricordava piú. Che, per qualche imperscrutabile ragione, l¿universo le abbia concesso una seconda possibilità? Per cambiare il corso delle cose? E, forse, per salvare suo padre? Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<BR>'Will make you laugh, cry, and call the people you love. Exceptional' EMILY HENRY<BR><BR>'Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love' GABRIELLE ZEVIN<BR><BR>'Her most emotionally resonant work yet' VOGUE<BR><BR>'Has the makings of a dreamy, witty, contemporary classic' EVENING STANDARD<BR><BR>'I just finished and I'm crying at its message and its honestly and its utter beauty' JODI PICOULT<BR><BR>'A tender, witty David Nicholls-esque tale of familial love' i<BR><BR>________<BR><BR><BR>About to turn forty, Alice feels stuck: She works at the school she attended. Her boyfriend isn't the man of her dreams. And her beloved father Leonard is dying.<BR><BR><BR>But after one too many drinks, she wakes up in her childhood home to find forty-year-old Leonard celebrating her sixteenth birthday.<BR><BR><BR>Now Alice gets to relive this one day in 1996, over and over. When the slightest change will impact the rest of her life.<BR><BR><BR>Can she fix her life and save her father?<BR><BR><BR>Or will her good intentions only cause harm to those she loves most?<BR><BR>________<BR><BR><BR>With her celebrated humour, insight, and heart, Emma Straub cleverly turns all the traditional time travel tropes on their head and delivers a different kind of love story - about the lifelong, reverberating relationship between a parent and child.<BR><BR><BR>'A tender tale of time travel. Straub strips back the layers to reveal what's important' STYLIST, 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'<BR><BR><BR>'An excellent time-travelling novel about adolescence and second chances from the always brilliant Emma Straub' METRO<BR><BR><BR>'Clever, complex and really rather lovely' BEST<BR><BR><BR>'Magical, heart-warming and insightful . . . Warm, wryly funny and melancholic' DAILY EXPRESS<BR><BR><BR>'This time-travelling take on a hypothetical return to 1996 and the protagonist's 16th birthday will be enough to remind you to cherish what you have' ELLE<BR><BR><BR>'Full of deftly managed plot twists, it's both fun and poignant' MAIL ON SUNDAY<BR><BR><BR>'Literary sunshine' New York Times on All Adults Here<BR><BR><BR>'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Liane Moriarty<BR><BR><BR>'Deliciously warm and nostalgic' Gillian McAllister, bestselling author of Wrong Place Wrong Time<BR><BR><BR> 'A master of the domestic ensemble drama' Time<BR>