From the bestselling author of The Hours and Specimen Days comes a generous, masterfully crafted novel with all the power of a Greek tragedy. The epic tale of an American family, Flesh and Blood follows three generations of the Stassos clan as it is transformed by ambition, love, and history. Consta
Flesh and blood: [a novel]
β Scribed by Michael Cunningham
- Publisher
- Picador
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 242 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 0312426682
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The story of Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant. He marries an Italian girl, they have three children and he becomes a rich construction boss. After which it's downhill all the way: drugs, sex and the generation gap. The parents divorce, a son becomes a homosexual, the daughter has an illegitimate black baby. By the author of A Home at the End of the World.
β¦ Subjects
Families -- Fiction
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