Everything Matters! A Novel
Everything Matters! A Novel by Ron Currie, published by Penguin on July 27, 2010, is a reprint edition comprising 336 pages in English. This novel follows Junior Thibodeau as he navigates his childhood in rural Maine, marked by the cultural touchstones of Atari, baseball cards, and pop Catholicism. Junior harbors a secret knowledge about the end of the world, which shapes his search for meaning amidst the complexities of family life and personal relationships.
Readers will encounter a rich tapestry of character-driven narratives that explore themes of family dynamics, lost love, and reconciliation. As Junior grapples with his unique insight into the future, the story unfolds through the experiences of his parents and brother, weaving together elements of alternative history and literary fiction. Everything Matters! presents a multifaceted exploration of existence and connection, culminating in a transformative conclusion that reconfigures the universe.
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“Startlingly talented . . . he survives the inevitable, apt comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and writes in a tenderly mordant voice all his own.” -Janet Maslin, The New York Times
In this novel rich in character, Junior Thibodeau grows up in rural Maine in a time of Atari, baseball cards, pop Catholicism, and cocaine. He also knows something no one else knows-neither his exalted parents, nor his baseball-savant brother, nor the love of his life (she doesn’t believe him anyway): The world will end when he is thirty-six. While Junior searches for meaning in a doomed world, his loved ones tell an all-American family saga of fathers and sons, blinding romance, lost love, and reconciliation-culminating in one final triumph that reconfigures the universe. A tour de force of storytelling, Everything Matters! is a genre-bending potpourri of alternative history, sci-fi, and the great American tale in the tradition of John Irving and Margaret Atwood.
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