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WE ALL LOVE THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS
For readers of quality fiction that balances stylistic power with propulsive family dramas, calling to mind The Ice Storm, American Beauty, The Corrections and The Best Kind of People, WE ALL LOVE THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS by Joanne Proulx is a story about marriage, power, financial dependence, instinct, sex and survival in contemporary society, and if, or how, love fits in. Forthcoming from Viking Canada for publication in Fall 2017 (Nicole Winstanley editing) world rights ex: Canada are available. Proulx's debut novel Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet is forthcoming as a feature film in late 2017 with movie stars Cameron Monaghan (Shameless), Peyton List (BUNK'D) and Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers).
Who do the lucky become when their luck sours?
One frigid winter night, the happily prosperous Mia and Michael Slate discover that a close friend and business partner has cheated them out of their life savings. On the same night, their son, Finn, passes out in the snow at a party a mistake with shattering consequences.
Everyone finds their own ways of coping with the ensuing losses. For Finn, it's Jess, a former babysitter who sneaks into his bed at night, even as she refuses to leave her boyfriend. Mia and Michael find themselves forgoing tenderness for rougher sex and seeking solace outside their marriage: Mia in a flirtation with a former colleague, whose empty condo becomes a blank canvas for a new life, and Michael at an abandoned baseball diamond, with a rusty pitching machine and a street kid eager to catch balls in Finn's old glove. As they creep closer to the edge of betrayal, infidelity, and revenge the story moves into more savage terrain.
With honesty, compassion, and tough emotional precision, award-winning author Joanne Proulx explores the itch of the flesh, sexual aggression, the reach of love and anger, and the question of who ultimately suffers when the privileged stumble.
Joanne Proulx's debut novel Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet, published internationally (Penguin Canada; Soho US; Picador MacMillan UK; Arena, Netherlands), was selected by Border's in 2008 for their prestigious Best New Voices series and was the recipient of Canada's Sunburst Award for Fantastic Fiction and named a best debut of 2007 by The Globe and Mail. A feature film adaptation of Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet is currently in production starring Juliette Lewis. An MFA graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, Joanne workshopped We All Love the Beautiful Girls with Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Bret Anthony Johnston, Rachel Pastan, and Jill McCorckle, all enthusiastic supporters of her work.
One frigid winter night, the happily prosperous Mia and Michael Slate discover that a close friend and business partner has cheated them out of their life savings. On the same night, their son, Finn, passes out in the snow at a party a mistake with shattering consequences.
Everyone finds their own ways of coping with the ensuing losses. For Finn, it's Jess, a former babysitter who sneaks into his bed at night, even as she refuses to leave her boyfriend. Mia and Michael find themselves forgoing tenderness for rougher sex and seeking solace outside their marriage: Mia in a flirtation with a former colleague, whose empty condo becomes a blank canvas for a new life, and Michael at an abandoned baseball diamond, with a rusty pitching machine and a street kid eager to catch balls in Finn's old glove. As they creep closer to the edge of betrayal, infidelity, and revenge the story moves into more savage terrain.
With honesty, compassion, and tough emotional precision, award-winning author Joanne Proulx explores the itch of the flesh, sexual aggression, the reach of love and anger, and the question of who ultimately suffers when the privileged stumble.
Joanne Proulx's debut novel Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet, published internationally (Penguin Canada; Soho US; Picador MacMillan UK; Arena, Netherlands), was selected by Border's in 2008 for their prestigious Best New Voices series and was the recipient of Canada's Sunburst Award for Fantastic Fiction and named a best debut of 2007 by The Globe and Mail. A feature film adaptation of Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet is currently in production starring Juliette Lewis. An MFA graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, Joanne workshopped We All Love the Beautiful Girls with Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Bret Anthony Johnston, Rachel Pastan, and Jill McCorckle, all enthusiastic supporters of her work.
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Published 2017-08-01 by Penguin Canada/Hamish Hamilton |