The land of steady habits: a novel

✍ Scribed by Ted Thompson

• Book ID: 100256769
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 159 KB
• Edition: 1st edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0316186570

✦ Synopsis

"This assured, compassionate first novel channels the suburban angsty of Updike and Cheever...with pitch-perfect prose and endearingly melancholy characters." --Booklist (Starred Review)
Anders Hill, entering his early sixties and seemingly ensconced in the "land of steady habits"--a nickname for the affluent, morally strict hamlets of Connecticut that dot his commuter rail line--abandons his career and family for a new condo and a new life. Stripped of the comforts of his previous identity, Anders turns up at a holiday party full of his ex-wife's friends and is suprised to find that the very world he rejected may be one he needs. Thus Anders embarks on a clumsy, hilarious, and heartbreaking journey to reconcile his past with his present. Like the early work of John Updike, Ted Thompson's first novel finely observes a man in deep conflict with his community. With compassion for its characters and fresh insight into the American...