Plus, receive recommendations and exclusive offers on all of your favorite books and authors from Simon & Schuster. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner, a novel that's funny, fanciful, extremely Classifications Library of Congress PT9877.12.A32 ID Numbers Open Library OL28688125M ISBN 13 9780718186609 Lists containing this Book. They’ve long had an us-against-them attitude. Through Benji’s relationship to the other players, the author creates another story arc that follows the hockey team’s growth over the course of the novel. 4.5 stars Emotionally Gutting Us Against You is the emotionally charged sequel to Beartown. Use up arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+up arrow) and down arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+down arrow) to review and enter to select.Click or Press Enter to view the items in your shopping bag or Press Tab to interact with the Shopping bag tooltipCurrent price is $15.5, Original price is $17. Named one of 2019’s most anticipated reads by Entertainment Weekly, “a hilarious and witty joy The loss of the Beartown A-team promises to impact everyone in town. Backman cements his standing as a writer of astonishing depth and proves that he also has very broad range plus the remarkable ability to make you understand the feelings of each of a dozen different characters. Benji works to reconcile his father’s death throughout the course of the novel. Us Against You Fredrik Backman, 2018 Atria Books 448 pp. ""A light hearted, deeply moving novel about a grumpy but loveable curmudgeon who finds his solitary world."Mr. Us Against You A Novel This edition published in 2018 by Penguin Books, Limited. In Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever, daughter of the famously talented writer John Cheever, uses From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The House at Riverton, a novel that takes ... . Through their rivalries with the head team, the author shows the ways hockey links all disparate members of the region.
Plagued by community harassment, and lonely after the loss of his best friend Kevin ERdahl, Benji struggles to understand who he is in the context of his community and team. Midsummer in Beartown and there’s no ice hockey to be played, but the events of spring, “the scandal” as some referred to it, still looms large in the town’s collective consciousness. There is even more potential for book group discussion here as Backman explores violence, political maneuvering, communities, feminism, sexuality, criminality, the role of sports in society, and what makes us all tick." Hockey still rules, but emotions are high, the town is falling apart, new friendships are formed and new enemies are made. The novel opens on the outskirts of Beartown. The author runs the individual stories of each of the Beartown players through the above hockey and political narratives. Us Against You. She feels if she had never existed, she would not have gotten raped, and her parents and brother Leo would not be further distancing themselves from one another. In 2018, Washington Square Press (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) published Us Against You with a translation by Neil Smith. When a town experiences winter for nine months of the year, it should be no wonder that its passion turns to ice hockey. Here is a declaration of love for all the big and small, bright and dark stories that give form and color to our communities. In the final chapters of the novel, the other characters work to put their personal concerns aside as well. The story is fully packed with wise insights into the human experience causing characters and readers to ponder life’s great question of who we are, what we hope to be and how we should lead our lives. poignant and rich with insight (The Boston Globe).For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. You Save 9%.