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Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham
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Mar 12, 2024 | ISBN 9780593448236

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“Rarer is a debut that announces a talent like Cunningham’s.”The New York Times

“One of the smartest and most involving political novels I’ve read in ages.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Vinson Cunningham’s sparkling debut novel, set during the Obama campaign, earns its comparisons to Henry James.”Slate

“Expertly captures a distinct moment in American history.”Town & Country

“An innovative, resolutely distinctive book . . . ceaselessly searching and inventive . . . indispensable.”The Nation

“Cunningham’s remarkable first novel matches the scale of its namesake.”Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Alive in its intellectual detours, with Cunningham considering religion, race, sex, film, politics, fatherhood, and more . . . A top-shelf intellectual bildungsroman.”Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Brilliantly written, piercingly smart, quietly subversive, Great Expectations will be one of the talked-about novels of the year.”—Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin, winner of the National Book Award

“The aptly titled Great Expectations announces Vinson Cunningham as a novelist of singular style, wit, and ambition. Read Great Expectations and see our recent past, our present, and even our future anew.”—Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House, finalist for the National Book Award

“Vinson Cunningham’s Great Expectations is epic, intimate, and brimming with brilliance. [It’s] is a phenomenal, transfixing work, and Cunningham is a singular, dazzling writer.”—Bryan Washington, author of Family Meal and Memorial

“In Great Expectations, gospel is both a formative rhythm and a means of seduction. Cunningham writes thoughtfully about aspiration, fatalism, and the complexity of bearing witness to the creation of a mythology. I always look forward to reading his work.”—Raven Leilani, New York Times bestselling author of Luster
 
“Recent history becomes both thrillingly vivid and achingly past in Vinson Cunningham’s spellbinding debut novel, Great Expectations. A coming-of-age novel of the richest, most expansive kind, it’s a rare debut, one that feels both intimate and revelatory.”—Megan Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of The Turnout

“An electrifying first novel and bildungsroman of consummate artistry and sensitivity, honed vision and wit.”—Booklist (starred review)

Great Expectations tackles questions of politics, race, religion, and family with Cunningham’s characteristic poise and insight.”—The Millions

“The vivid attention to detail in Great Expectations creates a singular, and sobering, mood—an ambient rumination on the recent, and seemingly very distant, past.”—The Boston Globe

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