Fourteen Days: A Unique Collaborative Novel From a Star-Studded Cast of Writers
Author(s): Margaret Atwood & Douglas Preston (eds)
Led by Margaret Atwood, a star-studded cast create a dazzling, heartwarming response to the darkness cast by the pandemic. Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the pandemic, Fourteen Days is a dazzling, heartwarming novel with an unusual twist- each character has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston to Dave Eggers and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbours gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants - some of whom have barely spoken to each other - become real neighbours. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editor Margaret Atwood, Authors Guild president Douglas Preston, and a star-studded list of contributors create a beautiful ode to the people who couldn't get away from the city when the pandemic hit. A dazzling, heartwarming collection, Fourteen Days reveals how beneath the loss and suffering, some communities managed to become stronger.
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An immensely enjoyable product of an immensely unenjoyable time, Fourteen Days is lively, freewheeling and...an impressive achievement * Observer * Fourteen Days serves as a valuable reminder that stories can teach, console, provide a place of acceptance and perhaps even change their readers (or listeners) * Financial Times * We like a bit of fun with our fiction, of the sort you get with Fourteen Days, a new collaborative novel set in a New York tenement in the early days of the pandemic in which a crew of acclaimed writers - including Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and Emma Donoghue - each tell a different character's story. * The Times * A rather intriguing puzzle box of a book... enjoyable, and has a dip-into-able quality * Scotland on Sunday * If you want to feel well read in double-quick time, try Fourteen Days, which is set in a New York city tenement in the early days of the pandemic. It has a novel twist (pardon the pun) - each character has been secretly written by a different author from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Dave Eggers and Celeste Ng * BBC *
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 460.0
- : 01 January 2024
- : h232mm x w152mm x s34mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Margaret Atwood & Douglas Preston (eds)
- : English
- : 384