Joanna Rakoff Livres

Ils sont six amis d’université, quatre filles et deux garçons, et ont choisi New York, la ville de tous les possibles, pour mener leur vie d’adulte. Mais au rythme des mariages, naissances, échecs professionnels et personnels, leurs rêves et ambitions ne tardent pas à se heurter à l’épreuve de la réalité. En mettant en scène leurs vies entremêlées, les amitiés et les amours qui se nouent et se dénouent, Joanna Smith Rakoff fait la chronique d'une génération perdue, qui, entre espoirs et désillusions, essaie de trouver sa place dans le monde...

A keenly observed and irresistibly funny memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing. Now a major motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. Precariously balanced between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office—where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze after three-martini lunches—and then goes home to her threadbare Brooklyn apartment and her socialist boyfriend. Rakoff is tasked with processing Salinger’s voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency’s form response and impulsively begins writing back. The results are both humorous and moving, as Rakoff, while acting as the great writer’s voice, begins to discover her own.