The Rebirth
(Miguel Tejada)
The rebirth is based on the new world that is yet to come and the only one that will see is yourself. this book is based on the 19th century when women and men are polar opposites.In this witty examination of New York's chattering classes, which opensin the spring of 2001, the despot of the title is Murray Thwaite, afamous journalist who made his name in the Vietnam era. The nextgeneration, however, is having trouble gaining traction. Murray'sdaughter, Marina, unable to complete a long-overdue book on thecultural significance of children's clothing, has moved back into herparents' Upper West Side apartment and is doing a lot of yoga. Her twobest friends?Danielle, a television producer, and Julius, a gayfreelance critic?are similarly ambitious and entitled, without beingparticularly driven. All three find sex the easiest way to transformthemselves. Only Murray's brainy and profoundly disenfranchised nephewfrom upstate aggressively pursues his belief in the true and the good,but he proves to be a sort of literary terrorist, threatening to blowthe family apart. The humorous intimacies of Messud's portraits do not,finally, soften the judgments behind them: If this is what's become ofthe liberal imagination, is it worth fighting for
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