Following" Bridge of Sighs"--a national best seller hailed by" The
Boston Globe" as "an astounding achievement" and "a
masterpiece"--Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and
of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to
children and the promises of youth.
Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father's
ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive and not shy
about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to
Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage
of their daughter Laura's best friend. For Griffin this is akin to
driving into the past, since he took his childhood summer vacations
here, his parents' respite from the hated Midwest. And the Cape is
where he and Joy honeymooned, in the course of which they drafted
the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their lives together that's now
thirty years old and has largely come true. He'd left screenwriting
and Los Angeles behind for the sort of New England college his
snobby academic parents had always aspired to in vain; they'd moved
into an old house full of character; and they'd started a family.
Check, check and check.
But be careful what you pray for, especially if you manage to
achieve it. By the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past
has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly
hangs in the balance. And when, a year later, a far more important
wedding takes place, their beloved Laura's, on the coast of Maine,
Griffin's chauffeuring two urns of ashes as he contends once more
with Joy and her large, unruly family, and both he and she have
brought dates along. How in the world could this have happened?
"That Old Cape Magic" is a novel of deep introspection and every
family feeling imaginable, with a middle-aged man confronting his
parents and their failed marriage, his own troubled one, his
daughter's new life and, finally, what it was he thought he wanted
and what in fact he has. The storytelling is flawless throughout,
moments of great comedy and even hilarity alternating with others
of rueful understanding and heart-stopping sadness, and its ending
is at once surprising, uplifting and unlike anything this Pulitzer
Prize winner has ever written.
"From the Hardcover edition."
General
Imprint: |
Random House
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Vintage Contemporaries |
Release date: |
June 2010 |
First published: |
June 2010 |
Authors: |
Richard Russo
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Dimensions: |
204 x 133 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
261 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4000-3091-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
1-4000-3091-9 |
Barcode: |
9781400030910 |
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