In stylish, uncluttered prose, Naoise Dolan dissects the personal and financial transactions that make up a life-and announces herself as a singular new voice. Dolan seasons the novel with insights about class, gender, race, colonialism, and.
but it is something the book also struggles to shrug off. Politically alert, heartbreakingly raw, and dryly funny, Exciting Times is thrillingly attuned to the great freedoms and greater uncertainties of modern love. Exciting Times is a fun, snappy read ordinarily. Should Ava return to the easy compatibility of her life with Julian or take a leap into the unknown with Edith? Ava wants to be her-and wants her.Īnd then Julian writes to tell Ava he is coming back to Hong Kong…. A Hong Kong–born lawyer, striking and ambitious, Edith takes Ava to the theater and leaves her tulips in the hallway. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than "I like you a great deal."Įnter Edith. First, a short bio: Stanley Rosebud Rosen was born on March 2, 1934, in the Bronx, New York City. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. Ava, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children. An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer.Īva, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children. An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer.
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