Ebook {Epub PDF} The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett

 · A dazzling novel about the ways the smallest decisions give shape to our lives, The Versions of Us charts a relationship through three possible futures. Cambridge, Late for class, Eva Edelstein swerves to miss a dog and crashes her bike. Jim Taylor hurries to help her. In that brief moment, three outcomes are born for Eva and www.doorway.ru: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Laura Barnett is an author and journalist. She writes regularly for the Guardian, the Observer, and the Daily Telegraph. Her first novel, The Versions of Us, will be published in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Czech, and Mandarin. Barnett has also written a nonfiction book and a book of award-winning short stories/5().  · Laura Barnett’s smart and engrossing debut, The Versions of Us is cleverly constructed and almost subversive in its assault on the architecture of romantic fiction. In the complex, yet easily followed dance of the three story lines, we get to know this Eva Edelstein and Ji A well written and cleverly constructed commercial novel that envisions three versions of the lives of the protagonists -- /5.

The Versions of Us Laura Barnett Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May pp; $ Buy: hardcover | eBook. The Versions of Us, Laura Barnett's tapestry romance, is in many ways Margaret Atwood's "Happy Endings" fleshed into a www.doorway.ru novel's main style device employs just what the title promises: three versions of the same pair, Eva and Jim, within in three variations of how. Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of Us, on the stories of Eva and www.doorway.ru Versions of Us is available now in all good bookshops and online retailers: h. Listen to THE VERSIONS OF US by Laura Barnett, a playlist curated by OrionBooks on desktop and mobile. SoundCloud. THE VERSIONS OF US by Laura Barnett by OrionBooks published on TZ. Clare Corbett and Daniel Weyman narrate THE VERSIONS OF US, Laura Barnett's spectacular literary debut.

As the strands of their lives weave together and apart across the decades from college through wildly different successes and disappointments, seductions and betrayals, births and funerals, joys and sorrows, the only constant is the power of their connection. TheVersions of Us is a tour de force of storytelling. I liked the concept, enjoyed the writing style, and the main characters had depth. I had a bit of difficultly keeping the three versions straight and needed to take notes in order to do so. Overall an enjoyable read and looking forward to reading more books by Laura Barnett in the future. By the start of version 3, all hope of that was lost. Descriptions of landscapes and seasons were superlative and in those few and far between scenes where we were given an insight into the minds and work of Eva as writer and Jim as artist, Laura Barnett's writing was second to none.