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The lives of Doug Willis, his wife, and their son and daughter spin wildly out of control as Doug takes a leave of absence from his despised PR job and copes with the claustrophobia of an unsatisfactory marriage, familial demands, and the tenacious power of love. 18,500 first printing.
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or the Pulitzer Prize, Jernigan introduced David Gates as a novelist of the highest order. "Full of dark truths and biting humor," wrote Frederick Exley, "a brilliant novel [that] will be read for a long time."
After that blackly comic handbook of self-destruction--whose antihero shoulders up to such crucial American figures as Bellow's Herzog, Updike's Harry Angstrom, Heller's Bob Slocum, Percy's Binx Bolling and Irving's Garp--Gates's new novel investigates the essential truths of a marriage à la mode. Doug and Jean Willis fit the newly classic, recognizable and seemingly normal variety: struggling against a riptide of the daily commute, the mortgages, the latchkey child-rearing and the country house, as well as the hopes and desires from which all of this grew.
In accordance with their long-standing agreement, Doug embarks from their Westchester home on a leave of absence from the PR job that had ineluctably become his life, while Jean c
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- VerlagAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Erscheinungsdatum1998
- ISBN 10 0679436677
- ISBN 13 9780679436676
- EinbandTapa dura
- Anzahl der Seiten333
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