Fulfillment
A Sunday Times Summer Reads Pick
Published on 5. June 2025
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-571-39215-5 (ISBN)
Description
'Engaging, thoughtful and bang up-to-date.' The Times
'A stone cold fox of a second novel.' PANDORA SYKES
'Fizzy dialogue and killer comic timing . . . Cole takes the temperature of modern America.' Daily Mail
You ever wake up and wonder how you got to a place?
Emmett and Joel are half-brothers, but they couldn't be more different: Emmett is single and working in a vast Cargo Distribution Centre in Kentucky, while Joel is a married academic and published writer. For the first time in years, the two of them are back together in the family home, just as Joel's wife, Alice, starts to yearn for a different kind of lifestyle.
An absorbing portrayal of three people's changing hopes and dreams, Fulfillment offers an unforgettable portrait of America today.
'A stone cold fox of a second novel.' PANDORA SYKES
'Fizzy dialogue and killer comic timing . . . Cole takes the temperature of modern America.' Daily Mail
You ever wake up and wonder how you got to a place?
Emmett and Joel are half-brothers, but they couldn't be more different: Emmett is single and working in a vast Cargo Distribution Centre in Kentucky, while Joel is a married academic and published writer. For the first time in years, the two of them are back together in the family home, just as Joel's wife, Alice, starts to yearn for a different kind of lifestyle.
An absorbing portrayal of three people's changing hopes and dreams, Fulfillment offers an unforgettable portrait of America today.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-39215-5 (9780571392155)
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Person
Lee Cole was born and grew up in rural Kentucky. A recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he now lives in New York. His debut novel, Groundskeeping was a Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick.