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Twenty years after four of five tight-knit friends leave their hardscrabble Boston suburb, they return to the side of the friend who stayed behind, a reunion that sparks his marriage to a strong, wealthy Irishwoman and adoption of middle-class norms before a drive-by shooting ends the lives of his wife and unborn child.
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"Brilliantly captures both the aspiration and self-loathing of the upwardly mobile American male" (Michael Arditti Independent)
"There is a tender immediacy to his prose, and White Guys is studded with beautifully observed moments...alert to the slightest emotional nuance between men, and between husbands and wives and parents and children" (Daily Telegraph)
"Giardina has an extraordinary gift for describing the eddies of power in what seem to be familiar relationships" (David Hare)
"I love men who can write about relationships as tenderly and honestly as Giardina does" (Julie Myerson)
"Smart... Compelling... Perfectly handled" (San Francisco Chronicle)
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"There is a tender immediacy to his prose, and White Guys is studded with beautifully observed moments...alert to the slightest emotional nuance between men, and between husbands and wives and parents and children" (Daily Telegraph)
"Giardina has an extraordinary gift for describing the eddies of power in what seem to be familiar relationships" (David Hare)
"I love men who can write about relationships as tenderly and honestly as Giardina does" (Julie Myerson)
"Smart... Compelling... Perfectly handled" (San Francisco Chronicle)
A strikingly powerful novel of male friendship and loyalty from Anthony Giardina, the acclaimed author of The Country of Marriage, an American novelist in the tradition of Cheever and Updike
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0374281440
- ISBN 13 9780374281441
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages371
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Farrar Straus Giroux, United States, 2006. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 231 x 155 mm. Language: English. After graduating from high school, in the early 1970s, Billy Mogavero is the only one of a tight-knit group of five friends who didn t make it out of Winship, a hardscrabble town outside of Boston. Twenty years later, the other four--who have made their way, to varying degrees--decide to return to Winship to visit Billy, once their galvanizing alpha male and now a paint salesman who lives at home with his mentally handicapped brother. Their reunion sparks a rapid-fire chain of events as Billy finally makes the social leap his friends have spent their lives making--to suburban respectability and conformity.Enthralled by the rapidity of Billy s climb--his marriage to an equally ambitious and tough Irishwoman, Maureen, included--his best friend, Timmy O Kane, sees in Billy s protean character and masterful adoption of middle-class norms a vital and necessary critique of his cozy existence--paid for by his wealthy wife--in a privileged Boston suburb. But when Billy, Maureen, and their unborn child are victims of a drive-by shooting in which only Billy survives, Timmy is ensnared in a series of events that threaten to spin entirely out of his control. His complicity in the aftermath of the tragedy threatens the hard won security of his leafy, suburban idyll--but is also strangely and seductively liberating.Inspired by actual events, Giardina has created a masterful and explosive social novel about the price of the American dream. Seller Inventory # 002040
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