Rainbow Rowell

Slow Dance (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A bright, beaming power ballad of a novel from Rainbow Rowellthe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Landline, Fangirl, and Eleanor & ParkSlow Dance tells the humorous and heartbreaking love story of best friends Shiloh and Cary from their inseparable teen years to their far-flung adulthoods as they try to figure out what their relationship is, where it went wrong, and how to finally make it right.

Growing up on the wrong side of Omaha, all Shiloh could think about was getting away. At least she had Cary in the meantime. Cary to put up with her, Cary to make her laugh. Cary at sixteen, built like a stick of gum and driving his mom's beat-up station wagon. He had it worse than Shiloh did. Only their friendship got Cary through high school and when Shiloh went off to college, he joined the Navy.

That was fourteen years ago. Now Shiloh's thirty-three and feeling like she never did get away. She's back living in the same house she grew up in. She's working in a theater, but not onstage like she'd planned. And she's divorced, a single mom just like her own mother (minus the revolving door of boyfriends).

When a high school friend invites Shiloh to his wedding, the last thing she wants is to catch up with the old gang. But she buys a new dress, puts on some makeup, and pins a silk flower over her heart, hopingand also worrying that she might see Cary, the boy she never realized she loved until he was lost.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063380219
• Artikelnr.: 68847303

Autorenporträt

Rainbow Rowell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park and the Simon Snow Trilogy, as well as several other award-winning novels, short stories, and comics. Rainbow lives in Omaha, Nebraska, just like most of her characters.

Rezensionen

"Fans of Rainbow Rowell may already know her signature style: Her books will make you gasp with recognition, laugh along with the characters' hijinks and probably leak a tear or two as they figure themselves out." - People

"Who can deny the absolute, dizzy pleasure of loving a novel so much that you cannot bear to put it down, that you want to do nothing but keep flipping pages, that you want to immerse yourself fully and not come up for air until you are finished. I read Slow Dance in just that way, breathless and weeping. There is no one better than Rainbow at creating flawed, deeply human people. I loved every page of Slow Dance, a book that is romantic to its core, and as funny and smart as its wonderful characters."
- Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author

"Rowell takes her time revealing the couple's origins as high-school besties, the conflicts they helped each other through as teens in working-class families and those they're dealing with now, the long period of silence between them, and the undeniable glimmers of their enduring mutual attraction. Their dance is sweet and sexy, and Rowell draws out the whole, simmering affair as she ping-pongs through her characters' past and present. . . . [Slow Dance is] sure to be a crowd-pleaser." - Booklist (starred review)

"Deeply human, profoundly romantic. Rowell tackles the challenges of love lost and rediscovered with nuance and candor. She will break your heart and you'll thank her for it."
- Leigh Bardugo, New York Times bestselling author

"Rowell does longing like nobody's business. She pits epic love against relatable, painful foibles. ...Chapters that dip back in time play to Rowell's strength writing the confused passions of teenagers and show just how long these two have been absolutely gone for each other. Readers will be desperate to see them work it out. A treat for fans of Rowell and of realistic romance." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"If you, like me, think thirty-somethings methodically working through their issues is very hot, Slow Dance is the book for you. The people in it feel like people you know or maybe even people you've been. Slow Dance is sexy, sweet, wise, and nostalgic - Jane Austen's Persuasion for our times." - Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"A gorgeous book. Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell is a beautiful, believable love story between two slightly broken people. It was so sweet, but never sentimental. I yearned for them to be happy, and I miss it now it's over." - International bestselling author Marian Keyes?

"Rich, real, and emotionally raw, this satisfying contemporary is sure to impress." - Publishers Weekly

"With tenderness and charm, Slow Dance describes what happens when someone finds their person, within a life and in a place where they'd rather not be, and how moving forward from calcified hurt is possible, given the brevity of life." - Shelf Awareness

"Witty, insightful and uncompromising, Rainbow Rowell's Slow Dance is an emotionally charged and beautifully real romance." - BookPage

"Readers who enjoyed Landline and Eleanor & Park will be glad to return to Rowell's unique storytelling style and lyrical prose... It's guaranteed to make hearts flutter, likely while bringing tears to readers' eyes." - Library Journal

"Rowell pulls off this impossible premise with great charm, and her depictions of the couple's sweet courtship and their later compromise-filled marriage are equally unsentimental and knowing." - The New Yorker on Landline

"Rowell is talented enough to be uncategorizable. . . . Landline belongs to a genre of its very own." - New York Times

"Her writing swings from profane to profound, but it's always real and always raw." - NPR on Eleanor & Park

"The funny, wised-up dialogue, the tumultuous, sweet, and sexy love story is grade-A Rowell . . . a book that readers will find almost impossible to put down." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Carry On

"Perfectly mixing sweet romance with deliciously tart wit, Rowell's literary debut is a complete charmer." - Chicago Tribune on Attachments