A Friend of the Family - Softcover

Grodstein, Lauren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099533359 ISBN 13: 9780099533351

Publisher: Arrow, 2010

Synopsis

Peter and Elaine Dizinoff have been friends with Joe and Iris Stern since medical school. Living the perfect life in a wealthy New Jersey neighbourhood, their children have grown up together and their lives are irrevocably intertwined. Until the Sterns are faced with a nightmare they could never have imagined.

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Review:

"This book is full of inisights and honesty ... These people will stay in your head and keep their hands on your heart. Grodstein's skills at storytelling are unwavering." (Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize winning author of OLIVE KITTERIDGE)

"In her wonderful second novel, Grodstein traces a suburban crisis and gives especially perceptive attention to the father-son bond... An astute dissector of male aspiration, Grodstein brings great insight into a father's protective urge for his son in this gripping portrait of an American family in crisis." (Publisher’s Weekly *Starred Review*)

"Beautifully told" (Evening Standard)

"A gripping account of paternal love gone wildly astray" (Helen Schulman, author of A DAY AT THE BEACH)

"There's nothing polemic or didactic about Grodstein's story, but she's written such an incisive diagnosis of aspirational America that someone should hand out copies at Little League games and ballet recitals ... What Grodstein captures so strikingly is the anxiety of a father's love ... Horrifyingly plausible and deeply poignant" (Washington Post)

Book Description:

A riveting and powerful story of suburban corruption and tragedy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arrow
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0099533359
• ISBN 13: 9780099533351
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320