Ten Thousand Saints (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780062021021)

"Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination. The resulting novel, Ten Thousand Saints, is the best thing I've read in a long time."
--Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder

A sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City during the late 1980s, Ten Thousand Saints triumphantly heralds the arrival a remarkable new writer. Eleanor Henderson makes a truly stunning debut with a novel that is part coming of age, part coming to terms, immediately joining the ranks of The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud and Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude. Adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young--and old--are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.

Author: Eleanor Henderson
ISBN-10: 0062021028
ISBN-13: 9780062021021
Publisher: Ecco Press
Language: English
Published: 06/07/2011
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.37w x 1.32d
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/01/2011 pg. 68
Library Journal 01/01/2011 pg. 60
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2011 pg. 60
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2011
Publishers Weekly 02/07/2011
Library Journal 02/15/2011 pg. 99
New Yorker (The) 07/11/2011 pg. 95
Entertainment Weekly 06/24/2011 pg. 79
New York Times Book Review 06/19/2011 pg. 1
New York Times Book Review 06/26/2011 pg. 34
Shelf Awareness 06/21/2011
Shelf Awareness 05/27/2011
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/04/2011 pg. 25
New Yorker (The) 12/19/2011 pg. 139
BookPage 06/01/2011