{"product_id":"turtle-diary-isbn-9781590176467","title":"Turtle Diary","description":"\u003cb\u003eTwo lonely Londoners bond over a plan to free the sea turtles at the city zoo in this touching novel from a cult-favorite author who has drawn comparisons to J.D. Salinger and Kurt Vonnegut.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA wise and touching classic that “crackles with witty detail, mordant intelligence and self-deprecating irony,” from the author of \u003ci\u003eRiddley Walker\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Life in a city can be atomizing, isolating. And it certainly is for William G. and Neaera H., the strangers at the center of Russell Hoban’s surprisingly heartwarming novel \u003ci\u003eTurtle Diary\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e William, a clerk at a used bookstore, lives in a rooming house after a divorce that has left him without home or family. Neaera is a successful writer of children’s books, who, in her own estimation, “looks like the sort of spinster who doesn’t keep cats and is not a vegetarian. Looks…like a man’s woman who hasn’t got a man.” \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Entirely unknown to each other, they are both drawn to the turtle tank at the London Zoo with “minds full of turtle thoughts,” wondering how the turtles might be freed. And then comes the day when Neaera walks into William’s bookstore, and together they form an unlikely partnership to make what seemed a crazy dream become a reality.“It's this dissonance between the simple turtle story and the irresolvable adult story that makes \u003ci\u003eTurtle Diary\u003c\/i\u003e a quiet masterpiece.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It is an insightful and droll novel about mid-life discontents, entirely timely for the readers who grew up on his books and who now have children and crises of their own. Out of print for several years, this new edition of \"Turtle Diary,\" with an introduction by Ed Parks, gives us a chance to discover a different Hoban – not the earlier children’s author and not the later fantasy novelist – and to be charmed by what’s in between.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A story about the recovery of life...Like other cult writers—Salinger for instance, or Vonnegut—Hoban writes about ordinary people making life-affirming gestures in a world that threatens to dissolve in madness.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Crackles with witty detail, mordant intelligence and self-deprecating irony.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This wonderful, life-saving fantasy will place Russell Hoban where he has got to be—among the greatest, timeless novelists.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“The marvellous energy of Mr. Hoban's writing, simultaneously dry and passionate, justifies everything he does.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Educational Supplement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Russell Hoban is our ur-novelist, a maverick voice that is like no other. He can take themes that seem too devastating for contemplation and turn them into allegories in which wry, sad humour is married to quite extraordinary powers of imagery and linguistic fertility that makes each book a linguistic departure.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eRussell Hoban (1925–2011) was the author of more than seventy books for children and adults. Hoban worked as a commercial artist and advertising copywriter before embarking on a career as a children’s author while in his early thirties. During the 1960s Hoban and his wife, Lillian, worked at a prodigious rate, producing as many as six books in a single year—many inspired by life with their own children—including six stories about Frances the badger, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Brute Family\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEmmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Sorely Trying Day\u003c\/i\u003e (published by the New York Review Children’s Collection). Among Hoban’s novels for adults are \u003ci\u003eTurtle Diary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRiddley Walker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bat Tattoo\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMy Tango\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ewith Barbara Strozzi\u003c\/i\u003e. He lived in London from 1968 until his death in December 2011.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Ed Park is a founding editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e and a former editor of the \u003ci\u003eVoice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e and the Poetry Foundation. His debut novel, \u003ci\u003ePersonal Days\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2008 and was a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation\/PEN Award. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. He is currently an editor at Penguin Press. He lives in New York City.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305099579621,"sku":"NP9781590176467","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590176467.jpg?v=1767743049","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/turtle-diary-isbn-9781590176467","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}