Among Friends A Novel

Hal Ebbott

eBook - 2025

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMISTNAMED A FAVORITE FICTION READ OF THE YEAR BY NPR“Stylish and assured....Ebbott’s prose is honed and aphoristic, recalling the work of James Salter and John Cheever...The sentences go down easy...but there is substance beneath the gleaming surfaces.” —Washington Post“Acutely perceptive and beautifully written...A living thing...A huge achievement.” —The Financial Times"Finely calibrated...[A]s discerning as it is pitiless." —The New YorkerWhat begins as celebration gives way to betrayal, shattering the trust between two familiesIt’s an autumn weekend at a comfortable New York country house where two deeply intertwined families have gathered to mark t...he host’s fifty-second birthday.Together, the group forms an enviable portrait of middle age. The wives and... more