{"product_id":"evenings-and-weekends-a-novel-isbn-9780063319974","title":"Evenings and Weekends: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“This is such a love story to cities \u0026amp; people \u0026amp; heartbreaks, death \u0026amp; loss. It's not at all corny, it's smart. But I just finished it \u0026amp; it made me cry.” — Eileen Myles \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Signals the arrival of a novelist sure to resonate with young people who endeavor to make intimate connections.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a stunning debut that follows a vibrant multi-generational cast of characters through a London heatwave as their simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over a feverish, life-changing weekend.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummer in London stops for no one. Not the half-naked drunks and stoners, the bachelorette parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried cigarettes. It’s June 2019, and everyone has converged on the city’s parks, beer gardens, and street corners to revel in the collective joys of being alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone but Maggie. She’s 30, pregnant, and broke. Faced with moving back to the town she fought to escape, she’s wondering if having a baby with boyfriend Ed will be the last spontaneous act of her life. Ed, meanwhile, is trying to run from his past with Maggie’s best friend Phil and harboring secret dreams of his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhil hates his office job and is living for the weekend, while falling for his housemate, Keith. But there’s a problem: Keith has a boyfriend and there might not be room for three people in the relationship. Then there’s Rosaleen, Phil’s mother, who’s tired of feeling like a side character in her own life. She’s just been diagnosed with cancer and is travelling to London to tell Phil, if she can ever get hold of him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Saturday night approaches, all their lives are set to change forever. Temperatures are soaring and the weekend is about to begin…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrikingly heartfelt, sexually charged, and disarmingly comic, Oisín McKenna’s debut is a mesmerizing dive into the soul of a city and a searing look at what it takes to build a life there.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eEvenings and Weekends \u003c\/em\u003edives into the heart of a city and its inhabitants with beauty and intellect. The result is a novel brimming with life, confronting the difficult and ugly with a fresh and charming levity. I can’t wait to read what McKenna writes next.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicola Dinan, author of Bellies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book was a thrill. Zadie Smith-esque in its kaleidoscope of London and incisively political but only in the most generous, specific, and lived-in way; That Oisín can write a book so steeped in identity politics and yet so casually chaotic and real is a testament to his imaginative generosity and sense of scale. I could go on and on and on. Compassionate, intelligent, hilarious. This book will win prizes. I enjoyed it so much.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNiamh Campbell, author of This Happy, winner of the Rooney Fiction Prize\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"‘I tore through \u003cem\u003eEvenings and Weekends\u003c\/em\u003e, a story which is full of life and rings with passion and hope. A brilliant study of the sins of modern Britain and the energy of contemporary London.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSoula Emmanuel, author of Wild Geese\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The aching, swelling humanity of this book swallowed me whole.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaba Sams, author of Send Nudes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The characters in \u003cem\u003eEvenings and Weekends\u003c\/em\u003e are almost shockingly alive. I was fascinated by the mix of zeitgeisty humor, wisdom, and existential angst. I have never read a book that captures what London feels like to young people quite so compellingly.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTomasz Jedrowski, author of Swimming in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is such a love story to cities \u0026amp; people \u0026amp; heartbreaks, death \u0026amp; loss. It's not at all corny, it's smart. But I just finished it \u0026amp; it made me cry.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEileen Myles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A masterclass in tension and character writing.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003e“Evenings \u0026amp; Weekends\u003c\/em\u003e follows a polygon of poor, hot young people as they question their fidelity to the flickering city.…It signals the arrival of a novelist sure to resonate with young people who endeavor to make intimate connections.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This vivid realist novel adroitly maneuvers a sprawling interlocking cast around the hipster haunts of north and east London, including Kingsland Road, London Fields and the Hampstead Heath swimming ponds…His electric, broadbrush vignettes of urban life recall Kae Tempest’s novel \u003cem\u003eThe Bricks That Built the Houses\u003c\/em\u003e and Vivian Gornick’s memoirs. For even as it utters a howl of rage at broken, late-capitalist Britain, Evenings and Weekends is a love letter to the city – the chance it offers to forge your own identity, and the interconnectedness of urban life. A tender portrait of contemporary queer London.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Summer is almost upon us. By the end of it… \u003cem\u003eEvenings and Weekends\u003c\/em\u003e, will surely be a much-thumbed book atop many bedside stacks and best-of lists. With it, yet another brilliant Irish voice announces their presence in contemporary literature…Intoxicating… \u003cem\u003eEvenings and Weekends i\u003c\/em\u003es a wonderful, almost engulfing reading experience.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"McKenna’s book captures what it feels like to be worn out by the constant calculations, and adjustments and uncertainties that so often underpin a London life.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A gem of a debut...a lit-girl favorite thanks in part to its (slight) resemblance to Sally Rooney relationship dramas...Witty and contemporary but with a timeless understanding of the nature of desire, McKenna’s first novel has convinced me to keep a close eye on whatever he writes next.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A gorgeous, kaleidoscopic vision of London written in shimmering prose I felt compelled to underline. Oisín writes from an array of perspectives—young and old, male and female, queer and straight—with refreshing insight and empathy. I was deeply moved by\u003cem\u003e Evenings and Weekends’\u003c\/em\u003e beauty and humanity.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCoco Mellors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Moving from character to character, Oisín McKenna creates a dynamic multigenerational world saturated with difficult choices, queerness, love, and angst. McKenna’s empathetic portrait doesn’t moralize; it instead charms and disarms the reader with realistic writing you can feel.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookshop.org\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Evenings and Weekends\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel of sincere belief in the possibilities of the future, a manifesto calling us to bring our voices into the chorus of modern life. With sparkling prose and tender attention to everyday detail, Oisín McKenna brings us deep into the tangled lives of parents, children, lovers and friends who, despite the struggle to survive in the twenty-first century metropolis, persist in their demand for pleasure, joy, and love.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAllen Bratton, author of Henry Henry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book of the summer.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDazed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The novel of the summer…this year’s great London novel… a precise and wise treatise on being late twenties in the capital.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvening Standard (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"McKenna’s ornate tapestry is one to savor.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This sparkling first novel focuses on the intertwined lives of three Londoners and their friends and family, largely over the course of a single weekend in June 2019...In another pair of hands, the compressed timeline and the size of the cast could have made for a disjointed reading experience, but McKenna toggles among the different characters and storylines with aplomb. What emerges is an empathetic portrait of millennials trying to build lives for themselves amid social, political, and ecological change...A smart debut that feels rooted in the experiences of a generation and establishes McKenna as a gifted writer.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A masterpiece: this searing tale of class, love and sex will resonate for generations to come.\"    - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOwen Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890610303205,"sku":"NP9780063319974","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063319974.jpg?v=1730233683","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/evenings-and-weekends-a-novel-isbn-9780063319974","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}