Synopses & Reviews
Stewart O'Nan's critically acclaimed novel Everyday People brings together the stories of the people of an African-American Pittsburgh neighborhood during one fateful week in the early fall of 1998. Vibrant, poignant, and brilliantly rendered, Everyday People is a lush, dramatic portrait that vividly captures the experience of the day-to-day struggle that is life in urban America. "A unique and tantalizing novel that celebrates the lives of everyday people in an extraordinary way." -- Mike Maiello, San Francisco Chronicle "An important book ... Beautiful, heartbreaking, haunting." -- Manuel Luis Martinez, Chicago Tribune
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"Quietly passionate, imbued with a subtle understanding of how the personal and political intertwine: another fine effort from an always-intriguing writer." Kirkus Reviews
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"[L]ike a well-composed musical piece, achieves a unity of effect in its depiction of a neighborhood and the everyday people who live there." Booklist
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"[O'Nan is] certainly among the strongest American writers of his generation." Washington Post
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"An important book....Beautiful, heartbreaking, haunting." Chicago Tribune
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"A sad and haunting novel....The struggles of the Tolbert family, with love and obligation, with hope and the end of hope, give shape to a plot that does not wholly unspool until the last sentence about the most dramatic and poignant I have ever read." Jack Beatty, The Atlantic
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"An important book about a subject long underrepresented in American fiction....A unique and tantalizing novel that celebrates the lives of everyday people in an extraordinary way." San Francisco Chronicle
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"The title promises lyrical social realism, and the novel delivers, weaving gritty street rhythms with a Faulknerian flow." Entertainment Weekly
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"Everyday People is an engaging picture of the lives of the working poor with plenty of soul and no easy answers." Boston Herald
Synopsis
Stewart O'Nan's critically acclaimed novel Everyday People brings together the stories of the people of an African- American Pittsburgh neighborhood during one fateful week in the early fall of 1998. Vibrant, poignant, and brilliantly rendered, Everyday People is a lush, dramatic portrait that vividly captures the experience of the day-to-day struggle that is life in urban America.
About the Author
Stewart O'Nan is the author of five previous novels, including the acclaimed A Prayer for the Dying. He lives in Connecticut.