β Miriam Toews
π Fiction
π
2005
π Knopf Canada;Vintage Canada
π en-US
β 130 KB
β¦ LIBER β¦
The hazards of good breeding: a novel
β Scribed by Shattuck, Jessica
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 179 KB
- Edition
- Reprint
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"Reading Jessica Shattuck's pitch perfect first novel is like spying on the children and grandchildren of John Cheever's Wapshots."--Los Angeles Times This "richly appointed and generously portrayed" (Kirkus Reviews) debut novel tells the story of a WASPy, old-Boston family coming face to face with an America much larger than the one it was born in. Told from five perspectives, the novel spans an explosive week in the life of the Dunlaps, culminating in a series of events that will change their way of life forever.
Caroline Dunlap has written off the insular world of the Boston deb parties, golf club luaus, and WASP weddings that she grew up with. But when she reluctantly returns home after her college graduation, she finds that not everything is quite as predictable, or protected, as she had imagined. Her father, the eccentric, puritanical Jack Dunlap, is carrying on stoically after the breakup of his marriage, but he can't stop thinking of Rosita,...
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