Necessary Errors

Author: MR Caleb Crain

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  • : $24.95 AUD
  • : 9780143122418
  • : Penguin Publishing Group
  • : Penguin Books
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  • : 0.522
  • : August 2013
  • : 208mm X 142mm X 36mm
  • : United States
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  • : English
  • : 813.6
  • : very good
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9780143122418

Description

An exquisite debut novel that brilliantly captures the lives and romances of young expatriates in newly democratic Prague   It’s October 1990. Jacob Putnam is young and full of ideas. He’s arrived a year too late to witness Czechoslovakia’s revolution, but he still hopes to find its spirit, somehow. He discovers a country at a crossroads between communism and capitalism, and a picturesque city overflowing with a vibrant, searching sense of possibility. As the men and women Jacob meets begin to fall in love with one another, no one turns out to be quite the same as the idea Jacob has of them—including Jacob himself.
Necessary Errors is the long-awaited first novel from literary critic and journalist Caleb Crain. Shimmering and expansive, Crain’s prose richly captures the turbulent feelings and discoveries of youth as it stretches toward adulthood—the chance encounters that grow into lasting, unforgettable experiences and the surprises of our first ventures into a foreign world—and the treasure of living in Prague during an era of historic change.

Reviews

ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS--The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Kansas City Star, Flavorwire, Policy Mic, Buzzfeed
 
Necessary Errors is a very good novel, an enviably good one, and to read it is to relive all the anxieties and illusions and grand projects of one’s own youth." —James Wood, The New Yorker

Author description

Caleb Crain is a frequent contributor to the" New Yorker," the" New York Review of Books," the" Nation," the" New York Times Magazine," the" London Review of Books," " n+1," the "Paris Review Daily," and the "New York Times Book Review." A graduate of Harvard and Columbia, he is the author of the critical work "American Sympathy." He lives in Brooklyn, New York.