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Wellness

Nathan Hill

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Picador
14 November 2023
AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK!

'This brilliant novel will leave you thinking about the truth of your own life and the stories we tell ourselves and each other.' - Oprah Winfrey

The New York Times Bestseller.

'A hilarious and moving exploration of a modern marriage that astounds in its breadth and intimacy.' - Brit Benett, author of The Mothers and The Vanishing Half

From Nathan Hill, acclaimed author of The Nix, comes another hugely ambitious novel, about how we change, grow and age. Wellness is a story of marriage, middle age, our tech-obsessed health culture, and the bonds that keep people together, for readers of Jonathan Franzen, Jennifer Egan and Elizabeth Strout.

When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the 90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago's thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to married life, and the no-longer-youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons, from unfulfilled career ambitions to painful childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process, Jack and Elizabeth must undertake separate, personal excavations, or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other.

Moving from the gritty 90s Chicago art scene to a suburbia of detox diets and home renovation hysteria, Wellness mines the absurdities of modern technology and modern love to reveal profound, startling truths about intimacy and connection. In this follow-up to Hill's electric debut, Wellness reimagines the love story with healthy doses of insight, irony and heart.

'Nathan Hill is a maestro . . . the best new writer of fiction in America - the best' - John Irving

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Imprint:   Picador
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 154mm,  Spine: 50mm
Weight:   758g
ISBN:   9781035008353
ISBN 10:   1035008351
Pages:   624
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Nathan Hill's short fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa Review, AGNI, The Gettysburg Review, and Fiction, which awarded him its annual Fiction Prize. A native Iowan, he lives with his wife in Naples, Florida.

Reviews for Wellness

A hilarious and moving exploration of a modern marriage that astounds in its breadth and intimacy. -- Brit Bennett, author of <i>The Mothers</i> and <i>The Vanishing Half</i> Nathan Hill has synthesized about a hundred years of that distinctly American delusion called self-improvement, and Wellness is the whip smart and gently comic result.' -- Joshua Ferris, author of <i>Then We Came to the End</i> Wellness is one of the funniest, saddest, smartest novels I’ve ever read . . . It's a flat-out masterpiece. -- Anthony Marra, author of <i>A Constellation of Vital Phenomena</i> Hill blends a family chronicle with cultural critique in his expansive and surprisingly tender latest . . . This stunning novel of ideas never loses sight of its humanity. * Publishers Weekly * A beautiful, sometimes sad, sometimes satirical but most of all honest book about the many people a person becomes—the way a life, in time, inevitably upends itself. -- Omar El Akkad, <i>author of American War</i> Ambitious, deeply engrossing, whip-smart and ultimately heartbreaking, Nathan Hill’s Wellness is all this and much more. -- Richard Russo, author of the North Bath Trilogy


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