Every word that comes out of johnnys mouth is a marvel this savvy, tattooed, newage punk who gives straight edge a soft cell. Ann patchett, author of commonwealth i loved ten thousand saints. Jun 19, 2011 the knot of intimacy at the center of ten thousand saints is the friendship between teddy mcnicholas and jude keffyhorn. Hers is a book where minor characters play the major roles. Ann patchett, bestselling author of bel canto and state of wonder a sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop. Author gets off to fast start with ten thousand saints. Sixteenyearold jude begins the book as a drugaddled misfit and misfits fan. Start your 48hour free trial to unlock this ten thousand saints study guide and get instant access to the following chapter summaries.
Eleanor hendersons tenthousand saints is unique in many ways. Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson goodreads. Feb 28, 20 ten thousand saints starts with new years eve in 1987. The ambition of ten thousand saints, eleanor henderson s debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. I could picture the graffiti, the zines, the people on the streets, the city in all its grimy glory. The knot of intimacy at the center of ten thousand saints is the friendship between teddy mcnicholas and jude keffyhorn. In saints, a straightedge coming of age set in the late 1980s, eleanor hendersons bittersweet ten thousand saints follows three teens as they search for belonging in a rapidly changing manhattan. Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson, paperback. Given the title of ten thousand saints, eleanor hendersons entertaining and readable debut novel, and the fact that its protagonist is named for saint jude, you might reasonably conclude that the book is about goodness, sainthood, moral transformation.
The novel showcases the optimism and stupidity of youth. Ten thousand saints starts with new years eve in 1987. Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson, paperback barnes. I remember this manhattan, the sunday matinees at cbs, the rage over yuppies colonizing the east village. With teddys half brother, johnny, and their new friend, eliza, jude tries to. Teenagers when the book begins, they specialize in petty theft. In her vibrant debut, a sweeping comingofage novel set against the pulsing new york city punk scene of the late 1980s, eleanor henderson asks this and much more, bringing to life both a set of achingly real characters and the unique time in which they lived in ten thousand saints. Set in the late 1980s, ten thousands saints follows jude.
On the last morning of 1987 and the last morning of teddys life, the two boys lay side by side, a pair of snow angels bundled in thriftstore parkas, eleanor henderson writes in ten thousand saints ecco, forecasting the death that will spark the next years events in this irresistibly rich and engrossing novel. Ten thousand saints is a film adapted from novel ten thousand saints book. Hes the one standing outside the bathroom while his friend teddy is inside impregnating eliza, a cokesnorting trustfund girl. Teddy and jude, best friends in their midteens, have big problems. The straight edge counterpunk culture is new to me and it was interesting to read about this alternative lifemusic movement for kids who wanted to clean up their acts. Jude and his sister, prudence, are named after beatles songs, but st. Ann patchett, bestselling author of bel canto and state of wonder a sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring new york city during the late 1980s, ten thousand saints triumphantly heralds the arrival a remarkable. Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson off the shelf. Ten thousand saints is a 2015 american drama film written and directed by shari springer berman and robert pulcini. The film stars asa butterfield as jude keffyhorn, the protagonist of the story. On this last day of 1987, they have a date with eliza, a total stranger but the daughter of les girlfriend. Jude asa butterfield is a teenage boy who is trying to reconnect with his father les ethan hawke in 1987 manhattan. Teddy does drugs with his best friend, jude and the son of eliza s mothers boyfriend, and eliza later.
Aug 15, 2015 with a starstudded ensemble cast, ten thousand saints tells the story of a group of friends and family members who come together in late80s new york to help raise the unborn child of teenager. Then he reunites with eliza, whos carrying teddys child. The story moves from lintonburg, vermontwhere 15yearold teddy and his. It is based on the novel of the same name by eleanor henderson. Eleanor hendersons ten thousand saints hooked me from the first line. In nearly 400 pages, henderson does not hold back once. As the full weight of eliza s disarming news slowly descends upon jude and johnny, the author places them all within teddys shattered dreams. Jan 29, 2015 in ten thousand saints, jude is an angstriddled teenager named after the beatles classic who lives in 1980s vermont. Blondes and brunettes big ones or small ones they were cold fragile impenetrable creatures all desirable as they were undesirable all perfumed and pretty. Jun 01, 2011 in ten thousand saints eleanor henderson has written the quintessential novel of new york citys east village in the late 1980s. Ten thousand saints quotes showing 18 of 8 jude s desire for girls was indiscriminate feverish and complete he wanted them all equally and he wanted them not at all. But the new indie film ten thousand saints, set in 1989, focuses on three teenagers in an awkward love triangle during a time when class tensions were simmering in new york citys east village.
Jude, of course, has a huge awkward crush on eliza. Jude is a favorite of jude s father, now selling marijuana in new york city. Listen to ten thousand saints audiobook by eleanor. With a starstudded ensemble cast, ten thousand saints tells the story of a group of friends and family members who come together in late80s new york to help raise the unborn child of teenager eliza, who finds herself pregnant after a new years eve tryst with her moms boyfriends sons best friend avan jogia, who, himself, winds up dead the. With teddys halfbrother johnny and their new friend eliza, jude tries to honor. Not sure why i liked it so much, and i certainly dont really care about the answer, but i do want to find out more about someone who would ask that question. Jun 26, 2011 ten thousand saintsby eleanor hendersonecco. For jude keffyhorn, adopted at birth by vermont hippies who. Mar 04, 2012 eleanor hendersons ten thousand saints is a real whopper of a first novel. Set in the 1980s, a teenager from vermont moves to new york city to live with his father in east village. It is quite natural, then, to understand that the term saints holy ones in jude 14 refers to the holy angels of god. Three teens cope with the death of their friend and their unstable parents. Adopted by a pair of diehard hippies, restless, marginal jude.
Eleanor henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination. Jul 03, 2011 ten thousand saints is rife with deities. To ask other readers questions about ten thousand saints, please sign up. Jul 31, 2012 eleanor hendersons tenthousand saints is unique in many ways. Set in vermont and new york city in the late 1980s, american author eleanor hendersons novel ten thousand saints 2011 follows eliza, a young new yorker who has a onenight stand with a young man named teddy while visiting vermont for new years eve. Moving back and forth between vermont and new york city, ten thousand saints is an emphatically observed story of a frayed tangle of family members brought painfully together by a death, then carried along in anticipation of a new and unexpected life. As further evidence to this conclusion, let us observe that jude 14 states. With ethan hawke, asa butterfield, hailee steinfeld, emily mortimer. This is where henderson loses the thread, wobbling uncertainly between jude, johnny and eliza while doing double duty as a counterculture guide to the straightedge scene. Ten thousand saints 720p and 1080p torrent yts yify links. Listen to ten thousand saints audiobook by eleanor henderson. He was raised by adoptive, divorced, hippy parents in a small city in vermont. Jude is the new guitarist at hahn, the original guitarist who supposedly had a secret relationship with johnny, its closed. With a starstudded ensemble cast, ten thousand saints tells the story of a group of friends and family members who come together in late80s new york to help raise the unborn child of teenager.
In ten thousand saints, jude is an angstriddled teenager named after the beatles classic who lives in 1980s vermont. Ten thousand saints is a strong debut novel set in the 80s in the nyc drug and music scene. Eleanor hendersons novel ten thousand saints starts with a condensed version of the onecrazynight premise from which entire films are built. Ten thousand saints sheila omalley august 14, 2015. At a young age, judes father les ethan hawke abandoned him. Jude is a favorite of judes father, now selling marijuana in new york city.
Ten thousand saints torrent they take to go and because their mother is before a pregnancy, eliza takes with harriet to stay while johnny toured the band. Like all good nostalgia novels, ten thousand saints is a love letter to a bygone time, and makes even a reader who never experienced it in the first place ache to be a part of it. Jude appears, wideeyed, green, and full of gratitude. Jude and teddy are teenagers celebrating the coming new year with some others, but unfortunately after a night of partying and drug taking, one of them doesnt live to see 1988. Ten thousand saints opens with the death of 15yearold teddy on new years eve. Eleanor henderson was born in greece, grew up in florida, and attended middlebury college and the university of virginia. Ten thousand saints is the story of jude keffyhorn. By his own estimation, jude keffyhorn, the skateboarding teen drug abuser turned. Eliza, johnny and jude start spending more and more time. I wanted to live inside its pages, where i could imagine not just the scenes themselves, but the cameras, the lights, the actors reading.
Jun 26, 2011 by his own estimation, jude keffyhorn, the skateboarding teen drug abuser turned cleanliving proselytizer in eleanor hendersons first novel, ten thousand saints, is an inessential. While there is no denying that a better editor would have made this an improved and shorter book, ten thousand saints, for the better part, manages to enthral readers with its visual sense of narration. Her debut novel, ten thousand saints, was named one of the 10 best books of. Hendersons first novel, ten thousand saints, is an inessential character. Aug 14, 2015 directed by shari springer berman, robert pulcini. Teddy and jude meet eliza at the bus station and take her to a new years eve party. Upset that he never had a real relationship with his potdealing new. By his own estimation, jude keffyhorn, the skateboarding teen drug abuser turned cleanliving proselytizer in eleanor hendersons first novel, ten thousand saints, is an inessential character. In it, she tells the story three young people who have lost their way. The film was released in a limited release and through video. I drew at the end of the books was the judes unnamed wife was eliza. Aug 10, 2015 set in the late 1980s and adapted from the acclaimed 2011 novel ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson, ten thousand saints follows jude asa butterfield, a young drug abuser who lives in a small vermont town with his mother julianne nicholson. The resulting novel, ten thousand saints, is the best thing ive read in a long time. Eleanor hendersons ten thousand saints is a real whopper of a first novel.
Its a lazy new years eve day of smoking, huffing, drinking, and snorting for teddy and jude. Behold, the lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints. Jun 23, 2011 it is the last morning of 1987, jude is turning 16 years old, and he and his best friend, teddy, lie under the bleachers of a college football stadium, smoking dope. Many of us remember the era defined by mix tapes, music videos and the end of the cold war. Adapted for the screen and directed by shari springer berman and robert pulcini the team nominated for best adapted screenplay for american splendor, 10,000 saints was released in 2015. An associate professor at ithaca college, she lives in ithaca.
Set in the late 1980s and adapted from the acclaimed 2011 novel ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson, ten thousand saints follows jude asa butterfield, a young drug abuser who lives in a small vermont town with his mother julianne nicholson. The cast includes asa butterfield as jude, hailee steinfeld as eliza, ethan hawke as les, julianne nicholson as harriet, emily mortimer as diane, emile hirsch as johnny, and avian jogia as teddy. Ten thousand saints isnt the definitive novel of the 1980s, but this is a story that will entertain by the pool and keep a reader coming back for more. In the roiling, electrified streets of new york city in the 1980s, eliza, jude, and johnny each show up wanting. Download ten thousand saints study guide subscribe now. Ten thousand saints balances an often chaotic load of characters, including jude and teddys bewildered parents, shuttling them back and forth between rural vermont and avenue c. Aug 14, 2015 jude and eliza trail along, going on minitours with army of one, putting ducttape xs on their hands a straightedge signifier. Although a closeted gay, he chivalrously offers to marry eliza and claim paternity to thwart eliza s mother, whos pushing for adoption. Mostly set in the lower east side of 1980s new york city, ten thousand saints is that rare book that paints scenes so vividly you can imagine the movie in your head. It is the last morning of 1987, jude is turning 16 years old, and he and his best friend, teddy, lie under the bleachers of a college football stadium, smoking dope. Sep 20, 2017 like all good nostalgia novels, ten thousand saints is a love letter to a bygone time, and makes even a reader who never experienced it in the first place ache to be a part of it. I would say jude is the real focus of the book, and when we meet him he is living in vermont with his hippie mother who is a glassblower who makes her living crafting and selling bongs and spending.
Eleanor hendersons novel ten thousand saints starts with a condensed version of the onecrazynight premise from which entire films are built its a lazy new years eve day of smoking, huffing, drinking, and snorting for teddy and jude. The film premiered at the 2015 sundance film festival on january 23, 2015. Jun 02, 2011 eleanor hendersons ten thousand saints hooked me from the first line. The first 50 pages of ten thousand saints, which chronicle a single. She remarked, i read the book and i loved how human the characters were and how flawed, yet wellmeaning, they were, which i think is a. This is a story of a group of teenagers struggling to come to terms with the death of a friend. Based on the debut novel by eleanor henderson, this. With empathy and masterful skill, eleanor henderson has conjured a rich portrait of the modern. Published by ecco books in 2011, ten thousand saints is also available from. Ten thousand saints is a 2015 american drama film written and directed by shari springer. Jude and eliza trail along, going on minitours with army of one, putting ducttape xs on their hands a straightedge signifier.
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