The Good Parents: A Novel - Softcover

London, Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802170579 ISBN 13: 9780802170576

Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat, 2009

Synopsis

The award-winning author of "Gilgamesh" delivers a tender and compelling taleof mother love and the harrowing moment when a daughter spreads her wings andvanishes from her parents' orbit.

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Review:

"Supremely satisfying . . . an exquisite piece of writing, carefully and deliberately told." -- Claire Sutherland

"A domestic unraveling that, in the elegance, economy, and psychological acuity of its telling, honors the many Chekhovian and Tolstoyan echoes in its pages." -- Geordie Williamson

"Underwritten by a wealth of human understanding . . . London pushes characters toward each other against the forces of nature. The results are as powerful as they are unsettling." -- Michael McGirr

"Ought to win every prize going . . . The writing can be so quietly lyrical you want to read very slowly, the suspense enough to make you want to race to the finish. . . . If London never writes another word, The Good Parents is more than enough." -- Cath Kenneally

"Although you are tickled by the urge to know what happens in the end, this is a novel you read slowly, with steadily increasing pleasure and interest, getting to know the widely varied and vividly realized characters, savoring the experience of so thoroughly Inhabiting someone else's world and taking it away with you at the end." -- Katharine England

Book Description:

From the author of Gilgamesh - longlisted for the Orange Prize - comes a novel of loss and longing that goes right to the heart of the struggle to belong.

'A richly detailed, expertly written exploration of the rebellions and yearnings of family life... Very impressive and completely engaging.' Daily Mail

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0802170579
• ISBN 13: 9780802170576
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368