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TEN THOUSAND SAINTS
Part coming-of-age, part coming-to-terms, Eleanor Henderson's TEN THOUSAND SAINTS is a virtuosically layered, exuberant and expansive debut.
The movie TEN THOUSAND SAINTS is based on Eleanor Henderson's novel. Directed by Bob Pulcini and Shari Berman (American Splendor), it stars Ethan Hawke and Asa Butterfield (Enders Game, Hugo) and Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit).
Adopted by a pair of diehard hippies, restless, marginal Jude Keffy-Horn spends much of his youth developing innovative methods of getting high with his friend Teddy. But when Teddy dies of an overdose on the last day of 1987 Jude's relationship with drugs and with his parents finds new extremes. Sent to live with his pot-dealing father on St. Mark's Place, he discovers straight edge, the underground youth culture powered by a righteous intolerance for drugs, meat, and sex, and the paradoxical aggression of hardcore punk. Together with Teddy's half-brother Johnny and their new friend Eliza, Jude attempts to honor Teddy's memory through his new, militantly clean lifestyle. But Jude's addiction to straight edge has its own dangerous consequences, and honoring Teddy is more difficult than he'd imagined. Meanwhile, the parents of these teenagers struggle to raise a generation that has a radical reinterpretation of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll and a grown-up awareness of nature and nurture, brotherhood and loss.
Eleanor Henderson started the book at UVA, where she earned her MFA in 2005. Last year her story "The Farms" was selected by Alice Sebold for The Best American Short Stories 2009. Her fiction has also appeared in Agni, North American Review, Ninth Letter, and Columbia, among others. Her nonfiction has appeared in Poets & Writers, where she was a contributing editor, and Virginia Quarterly Review, where she chairs the fiction board. She currently teaches at James Madison University, and will start an assistant professorship at Ithaca College in Fall 2010.
Adopted by a pair of diehard hippies, restless, marginal Jude Keffy-Horn spends much of his youth developing innovative methods of getting high with his friend Teddy. But when Teddy dies of an overdose on the last day of 1987 Jude's relationship with drugs and with his parents finds new extremes. Sent to live with his pot-dealing father on St. Mark's Place, he discovers straight edge, the underground youth culture powered by a righteous intolerance for drugs, meat, and sex, and the paradoxical aggression of hardcore punk. Together with Teddy's half-brother Johnny and their new friend Eliza, Jude attempts to honor Teddy's memory through his new, militantly clean lifestyle. But Jude's addiction to straight edge has its own dangerous consequences, and honoring Teddy is more difficult than he'd imagined. Meanwhile, the parents of these teenagers struggle to raise a generation that has a radical reinterpretation of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll and a grown-up awareness of nature and nurture, brotherhood and loss.
Eleanor Henderson started the book at UVA, where she earned her MFA in 2005. Last year her story "The Farms" was selected by Alice Sebold for The Best American Short Stories 2009. Her fiction has also appeared in Agni, North American Review, Ninth Letter, and Columbia, among others. Her nonfiction has appeared in Poets & Writers, where she was a contributing editor, and Virginia Quarterly Review, where she chairs the fiction board. She currently teaches at James Madison University, and will start an assistant professorship at Ithaca College in Fall 2010.
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Published 2011-06-01 by Ecco Press |