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Golden Richards, husband to four wives, father to twenty-eight children, is having the mother of all midlife crises. His construction business is failing, his family has grown into an overpopulated mini-dukedom beset with insurrection and rivalry, and he is done in with grief: due to the accidental death of a daughter and the stillbirth of a son, he has come to doubt the capacity of his own heart. Brady Udall, one of our finest American fiction writers, tells a tragicomic story of a deeply faithful man who, crippled by grief and the demands of work and family, becomes entangled in an affair that threatens to destroy his family's future. Like John Irving and Richard Yates, Udall creates characters that engage us to the fullest as they grapple with the nature of need, love, and belonging. Beautifully written, keenly observed, and ultimately redemptive, The Lonely Polygamist is an unforgettable story of an American family-with its inevitable dysfunctionality, heartbreak, and comedy-pushed to its outer limits.
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"Udall demonstrates a wonderful ability to move the reader one way or the other. He is a brilliant comic writer, and this novel is full of laugh-out-loud moments and running jokes. But he is equally adept at heartbreaking tragedy. Combining the two superbly here, he has recreated the terrible wonder and wonderful terror of family life, in a novel that's not larger than life, but just as large, as difficult, as funny and as poignant as everyday life itself" (Doug Johnstone Sunday Herald)
"It's funny, but not simply a comic noel; Udall has some wonderful observations about the dynamics of family life" (The Times)
"An exceptional tale of an exceptional family." (The New York Times)
"A dark, funny and insightful probe into the ways we can be lonely even when surrounded" (Sunday Telegraph, Australia)
"Memorable... Shining above all in this joyful celebration of communal living is Rusty, the misfit whose explosive fate will have profound effects on the whole, enormous family." (Ross Gilfillan Daily Mail)
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"It's funny, but not simply a comic noel; Udall has some wonderful observations about the dynamics of family life" (The Times)
"An exceptional tale of an exceptional family." (The New York Times)
"A dark, funny and insightful probe into the ways we can be lonely even when surrounded" (Sunday Telegraph, Australia)
"Memorable... Shining above all in this joyful celebration of communal living is Rusty, the misfit whose explosive fate will have profound effects on the whole, enormous family." (Ross Gilfillan Daily Mail)
'A wry, sympathetic portrait of a spectacularly dysfunctional family' New Yorker
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- PublisherW W Norton & Co
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0224078054
- ISBN 13 9780224078054
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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