Prize-winning author Lily King's masterful new novel spans three decades of a volatile relationship between a charismatic, alcoholic father and the daughter who loves him. Gardiner Amory is a New England WASP who's beginning to feel the cracks in his empire. Nixon is being impeached, his wife is lea
Father of the Rain
β Scribed by Lily King
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Inc
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 207 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0802197086
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β¦ Synopsis
A New York Times Editors' Choiceβ"a gripping epic about a father and daughter that plumbs the dark side of a family riven by addiction and mental illness" (Entertainment Weekly).
Gardiner Amory's life is reelingβNixon is being impeached, his wife is leaving him, and his worldview is rapidly becoming outdated. His daughter, Daley, has spent the first eleven years of her life negotiating her parents' conflicting worlds: the liberal, socially committed realm of her mother and the conservative, liquor-soaked life of her father. But when the pair divorces, Gardiner's basest impulses are unleashed in a deluge, the chasm between all of them widens, and Daley is stretched thinly across it.
As she reaches adulthood, Daley rejects the narrow world of her father's prejudices and embarks on her own lifeβuntil Gardiner hits rock bottom. Returning home to help her father get sober, Daley risks everything she's found beyond...
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