Everything Happens Today is funny, moving, generous and exhilarating. It will enchant young adults who see themselves in the story as well as adult readers who will be captured by the deeply sympathetic characters and the acute feel for the way we live now. Most readers will want it never to be over.
Jesse Browner is the author of four books including the novels Conglomeros (Random House 1992), Turnaway (Random House 1996) and The Uncertain Hour (Bloomsbury 2007). He has also translated a number of notable books including the award winning Celine: A Biography. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and two daughters.
Praise for Everything Happens Today "A deeply compassionate novel
by a very fine writer."
--Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland "Browner (The Uncertain
Hour) has crafted a stupendous, thought-provoking, devilishly
delicious novel that reads like Zen koan meets Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man with some modern "english" that sets the
plate spinning. Highly recommended."
--Library Journal (starred review) "A light, modern and keen look
at the discord between whimsy and prudence."
--Kirkus Reviews Praise for Jesse Browner's The Uncertain Hour "A
sumptuous and affecting novel."
--Michael Lukas, San Francisco Chronicle "If I say that Jesse
Browner's The Uncertain Hour is a truly original work of art, I
hope I won't scare anyone off. It's also the most engrossing
page-turner I've picked up in a long while."
--Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours "The Uncertain Hour is
that very rare thing--an historical novel of love and ideas not
only free of pedantry but also serious and entertaining...As one
would expect from an award-winning translator of both Jean Cocteau
and Rainer Maria Rilke, it's also elegantly written with a
narrative so well-relaized that it's easy to overlook the
46-year-old author's formal audacity."
--Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times
"The Uncertain Hour is...elegant meditation on such matters as the
nature of love, what makes a good life, and whether there can be
such a thing as a perfect death. I don't know which to praise more:
the author's feat of historical reconstruction, or his boundless
powers of invention."
--Sigrid Nunez, author of The Last of Her Kind
"A deeply compassionate novel by a very fine writer." Joseph
O'Neill, author of Netherland
"Browner (The Uncertain Hour) has crafted a stupendous, thought-
provoking, devilishly delicious novel that reads like Zen koan
meets Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man with some modern
"english" that sets the plate spinning. Highly recommended. "
Library Journal (starred review)
"A light, modern and keen look at the discord between whimsy and
prudence." Kirkus"
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