Every Exquisite Thing, Matthew Quick
Every Exquisite Thing, Matthew Quick
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Every Exquisite Thing

Author: Matthew Quick

Narrator: Vanessa Johansson

Unabridged: 5 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/31/2016

Synopsis

Nanette O'Hare is an unassuming teen who has played the role of dutiful daughter, hardworking student, and star athlete for as long as she can remember. But when a beloved teacher gives her his worn copy of The Bugglegum Reaper--a mysterious, out-of-print cult classic--the rebel within Nanette awakens.

As she befriends the reclusive author, falls in love with a young but troubled poet, and attempts to insert her true self into the world with wild abandon, Nanette learns the hard way that rebellion sometimes comes at a high price.

A celebration of the self and the formidable power of story, Every Exquisite Thing is Matthew Quick at his finest.

About Matthew Quick

Matthew Quick is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook—which was made into an Oscar-winning film—and eight other novels, including We Are the Light, a #1 Indie Next Pick and a Book of the Month selection. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention, was an LA Times Book Prize finalist, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a #1 bestseller in Brazil, a Deutscher Jugendliteratur Preis 2016 (German Youth Literature Prize) nominee, and selected by Nancy Pearl as one of Summer’s Best Books for NPR. The Hollywood Reporter has named him one of Hollywood’s 25 Most Powerful Authors. Matthew lives with his wife, the novelist Alicia Bessette, on North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May on May 30, 2016

And then one day you will look for you in the mirror and you’ll no longer be able to identify yourself - you’ll only see everyone else. You’ll know that you did what they wanted you to do. You will have assimilated. And you will hate yourself for it, because it will be too late. This was exactly......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on April 14, 2017

This one is tough to rate. I liked the writing, but that is about it. The tone is so cynical and melodramatic it is almost painful to read. I can see this one between 2 and 3 stars, but part of me thinks that is too low, and part of me thinks it is too high. Now, I am almost 40 and this book is abou......more

Goodreads review by Es Summer on June 16, 2016

Matthew Quick is the cult leader of misfits and weirdo's. Like me. He speaks to us on a personal level and he just knows where it hurts, where it suffers, and he uses it to abuse us with his lyrical words. To hurt more, to make us suffer more, but for some reason, he is a healer as well. He makes us ac......more

Goodreads review by Maria on March 19, 2020

O Dia da Rebelião Nanette é uma ótima estudante e uma atleta exímia. É uma Winner! Uma Campeã!... Uma Solitária:☹️ Na conquista da tão almejada etiqueta social, foi encaminhada por outros que não ela, e... no processo... a sua identidade foi relegada. Assaltava-a uma incómoda solidão acompanhada — os......more

Goodreads review by Brenda on April 30, 2016

Confession time: I hated Nanette. She was a pretentious snob who looked down on everyone and anyone, and had no real criteria to go on. I can see from all the 4 and 5 star reviews that I'm very much in the minority with this, but I just couldn't do it. I tried to be profound and insightful like Nane......more

Quotes

"Any listener interested in a coming of age story with a difference will fine Every Exquisite Thing makes for a powerful saga."—California Bookwatch/Midwest Book Review

"Every Exquisite Thing lives up to the hype...You're going to wish you could follow Quick's awesome heroine Nanette for another 500 pages or so when you get to the end."—Bustle.com

* "The author's beautifully written first-person narrative captures the thoughts and feelings of a sensitive eighteen-year-old girl struggling against the shallowness she sees around her....All of the elements of this novel work together to make this an outstanding coming-of-age story."—VOYA, starred review

* "Quick continues to excel at writing thought-provoking stories about nonconformity.... [and] paints a compelling portrait of a sympathetic teenager going through the trial-and-error process of growing up."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

* "Like the many anticonformity books before it, this will find a dedicated audience among teen readers."—School Library Journal, starred review

"Quick's story will speak to teenage eccentrics: loners, rebels, and creative types; the kind to follow Booker's suggestions to read Bukowski and Neruda; those ripe for transformation."—Horn Book

"A strong, well-written female protagonist sets this coming-of-age novel apart."—Kirkus Reviews

"Quick creates beautifully well-rounded characters, particularly Nanette, whose first-person narrative, rich with wry observations and a kaleidoscope of meaningful emotions, offers great insight into the mind of a teen on a sometimes sluggish, spiraling path toward sorting herself out."—Booklist

"[Quick] will give readers lots to chew on as they join Nanette in sorting out angst from general privileged malaise."—The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

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