<P>?Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination.  The resulting novel, <EM>Ten Thousand Saints</EM>, is the best thing I?ve read in a long time.?<BR>?Ann Patchett, bestselling author of <EM>Bel Canto</EM> and <EM>State of Wonder</EM></P> <P>A sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City during the late 1980s, <EM>Ten Thousand Saints</EM> triumphantly heralds the arrival a remarkable new writer. Eleanor Henderson  makes a truly stunning debut with a novel that is part coming of age, part coming to terms, immediately joining the ranks of <EM>The Emperor?s Children </EM>by Claire Messud and Jonathan Lethem?s <EM>The Fortress of Solitude</EM>. Adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young?and old?are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.<BR></P>