What Happened to Sophie Wilder

2012-05-29 Fiction

Author : Christopher Beha
Release : 2012-05-29
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 323/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book What Happened to Sophie Wilder written by Christopher Beha. This book was released on 2012-05-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartfelt exploration of faith and love and friendship, What Happened To Sophie Wilder is a beautiful, absorbing work about the redemptive power of storytelling: a literary love story. Charlie Blakeman has just published his first novel, to almost no acclaim. He's living on New York's Washington Square, struggling with his follow-up, and floundering within his pseudointellectual coterie when his college love, Sophie Wilder, returns to his life. Sophie is also struggling, though Charlie isn't sure why, since they've barely spoke, after falling out a decade before. Now Sophie begins to tell Charlie the story of her life since then, particularly the story of the days she spent taking care of a dying man with his own terrible past and of the difficult decision he forced her to make. When she disappears once again, Charlie sets out to discover what happened to Sophie Wilder. Christopher Beha's debut novel explores faith, love, friendship, and, ultimately, the redemptive power of storytelling.

What Happened to Sophie Wilder

2012-05-29 Fiction

Author : Christopher Beha
Release : 2012-05-29
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 315/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis What Happened to Sophie Wilder by : Christopher Beha

Download or read book What Happened to Sophie Wilder written by Christopher Beha. This book was released on 2012-05-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Blakeman, an aspiring novelist, reunites with his old college girlfriend, Sophie Wilder, who fills him in on the intervening 10 years she spent caring for a dying man and making a difficult choice before abruptly disappearing again. Original.

The Index of Self-Destructive Acts

2020-05-05 Fiction

Author : Christopher Beha
Release : 2020-05-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 829/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Index of Self-Destructive Acts written by Christopher Beha. This book was released on 2020-05-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for the Interviewer, a street-corner preacher declares that the world is coming to an end. A data journalist and recent media celebrity—he correctly forecast every outcome of the 2008 election—Sam knows a few things about predicting the future. But when projection meets reality, life gets complicated. His first assignment for the Interviewer is a profile of disgraced political columnist Frank Doyle, known to Sam for the sentimental works of baseball lore that first sparked his love of the game. When Sam meets Frank at Citi Field for the Mets’ home opener, he finds himself unexpectedly ushered into Doyle’s crumbling family empire. Kit, the matriarch, lost her investment bank to the financial crisis; Eddie, their son, hasn’t been the same since his second combat tour in Iraq; Eddie’s best friend from childhood, the fantastically successful hedge funder Justin Price, is starting to see cracks in his spotless public image. And then there’s Frank’s daughter, Margo, with whom Sam becomes involved—just as his wife, Lucy, arrives from Wisconsin. While their lives seem inextricable, none of them know how close they are to losing everything, including each other. Sweeping in scope yet meticulous in its construction, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts is a remarkable family portrait and a masterful evocation of New York City and its institutions. Over the course of a single baseball season, Christopher Beha traces the passing of the torch from the old establishment to the new meritocracy, exploring how each generation’s failure helped land us where we are today. Whether or not the world is ending, Beha’s characters are all headed to apocalypses of their own making.

Arts & Entertainments

2014-07-01 Fiction

Author : Christopher Beha
Release : 2014-07-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 478/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Arts & Entertainments written by Christopher Beha. This book was released on 2014-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A drama teacher finds unlikely celebrity thanks to a nearly forgotten sex tape in this ingenious . . . entertaining and thought provoking” novel (Booklist). At thirty-three, Eddie Hartley has given up his dream of becoming an actor for the reality of life as a drama teacher at a boys’ prep school. But when Eddie and his wife, Susan, discover they cannot have children, it is one disappointment too many. Weighted down with debt, his wife’s mounting unhappiness, and his own deepening sense of failure, Eddie is confronted with an alluring solution when an old friend-turned-web-impresario suggests Eddie sell a sex tape he made with an ex-girlfriend, now a wildly popular television star. Overcoming his initial moral qualms, Eddie figures that in an era when any publicity is good publicity, the tape won’t cause any harm—a decision that will propel him straight into the glaring spotlight he once thought he craved. A hilariously biting and incisive take-down of our culture’s monstrous obsessio n with fame, Arts & Entertainments is also a poignant and humane portrait of a young man’s belated coming-of-age, the complications of love, and the surprising ways in which the most meaningful lives often turn out to be the ones we least expected to lead.

The Whole Five Feet

2010-05-11 Literary Criticism

Author : Christopher R. Beha
Release : 2010-05-11
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 909/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Whole Five Feet written by Christopher R. Beha. This book was released on 2010-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique memoir of reading the classics to find strength and wisdom “makes an elegant case for literature as an everyday companion” (The New York Times Book Review). While undergoing a series of personal and family crises, Christopher R. Beha discovered that his grandmother had used the Harvard Classics—the renowned “five foot shelf” of great world literature compiled in the early twentieth century by Charles William Eliot—to educate herself during the Great Depression. He decided to follow her example and turn to this series of great books for answers—and recounts the experience here in a smart, big-hearted, and inspirational mix of memoir and intellectual excursion that “deftly illustrates how books can save one’s life” (Helen Schulman). “As he grapples with the death of his beloved grandmother, a debilitating bout with Lyme disease and other major and minor calamities, Beha finds that writers as diverse as Wordsworth, Pascal, Kant and Mill had been there before, and that the results of their struggles to find meaning in life could inform his own.” —The Seattle Times “An important book [and] a sheer blast to read.” —Heidi Julavits

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