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Everything Matters!

A Novel
By Ron Currie
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Everything Matters! follows Junior Thibodeau, who grows up in rural Maine surrounded by Atari, baseball cards, pop Catholicism, and cocaine. Junior alone knows the world will end when he turns thirty-six. As he and his family navigate a doomed world, their intertwined stories explore fathers and sons, blinding romance, lost love, and reconciliation, culminating in a final triumph that redefines the universe. This genre-bending novel blends alternative history, sci-fi, and the great American family saga.
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Ideal for readers who enjoy literary fiction with elements of science fiction and alternative history, fans of John Irving, Margaret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut, or those seeking a thought-provoking, genre-bending family saga.

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In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in 36 years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: Does anything I do matter?

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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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Praised by Janet Maslin of The New York Times as "startlingly talented," Ron Currie writes with a "tenderly mordant voice" and "fresh, joltingly funny imagery." Reviews highlight the novel’s mix of humour, beauty, and emotional depth, with NPR calling it "extraordinary" and a "lively narrative," and The Los Angeles Times noting its ability to make readers laugh out loud while offering passages of beauty and salvation.

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ISBN: 9780143117513

Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 July 2010

Country: United States

Imprint: Penguin USA

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 261g

Pages: 336

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Ron Currieis the author of the novelsEverything Matters!,Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles,and The One-Eyed Man, and the story collectionGod Is Dead, which was the winner of the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award. Currie received the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His books have been translated into fifteen languages. He lives in Portland, Maine.

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