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Cover credits: Cover design: Julie Metz/Cover photograph: Paul Clancy |
"Central Square confirms again that George Packer is one of the
great young talents of American fiction. This beautifully wrought
novel, about a city, a love affair, and the perpetual American hope for
renewal, makes high art—and compelling drama—from the follies and
compromises that attend all of those things." —Scott Turow |
Price: $24.95 USD
1-55597-277-2, 348 pages, Cloth
“Packer has a good feel for the sunlight-deficient lives of a typical
New England winter, but the novel is more than a few deft portraits of
selected urban existences. It is a graceful meditation on the moral
longing and often doomed effort that go into reinventing oneself.” —Publishers Weekly
“Central Square is a novel about the moral life, yet is devoid
of moralizing; a novel about the politics of class, gender, race and
culture, yet is free of cant. Few writers have portrayed the
contemporary, urban scene—or the struggle of lovers—with such honesty,
feeling, and wisdom.” —James Carroll
Central Square bustles with the complexities and contradictions of
today’s urban existence as it tells what happens when the enigmatic Joe
meets up with several other disparate characters. As characters collide
with circumstances, and each other, George Packer explores the conflict
between personal desires and social constraints, and the unattainable
balance between private life and the life of a community.
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