Ten Thousand Saints

By Eleanor Henderson

Book Overview

"Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination. The resulting novel, Ten Thousand Saints , is the best thing I've read in a long time." --Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder A sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City during the late 1980s, Ten Thousand Saints triumphantly heralds the arrival a remarkable new writer. Eleanor Henderson makes a truly stunning debut with a novel that is part coming of age, part coming to terms, immediately joining the ranks of The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud and Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude . Adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young--and old--are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062021214
• ISBN13: 9780062021212
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"