By turns hilarious and poignant, The Dakota Winters is a family
drama, a page-turning social novel, and a tale of a critical moment
in the history of New York City in the year leading up to John
Lennon's assassination. 'Conjures a gritty, populous, affectionate
portrait of 1979 New York City' Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan
Beach It's the fall of 1979 when 23-year-old Anton Winter, back
from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria,
returns to his childhood home in the Dakota in New York City.
Anton's father, the famous late-night host Buddy Winter is there to
greet him, himself recovering from a breakdown. Before long Anton
is swept up in an effort to reignite Buddy's stalled career, a
mission that takes him from the gritty streets of New York, to the
slopes of the Lake Placid Olympics, to the Hollywood Hills, to the
blue waters of the Bermuda Triangle, and brings him into close
quarters with the likes of Johnny Carson, Ted and Joan Kennedy, and
a seagoing John Lennon. But the more Anton finds himself enmeshed
in his father's professional and spiritual reinvention, the more he
questions his own path, and fissures in the Winter family begin to
threaten their close bond. 'Deft, funny, touching, and sharply
observed, a marvel of tone, and a skillful evocation of a dark
passage in the history of New York City, when all the fearful
ironies of the world we live in now first came stalking into view'
Michael Chabon, author of Moonglow 'This is a crazily charming
novel ... I wanted to begin a new life in these pages, with these
characters. I wanted to trade worlds with them. This is a wise and
seductive story that feels truer than true, as only the very finest
fiction does' Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air 'A
thought-provoking time capsule... if you were a fan of TV's Mad
Men, you might very well love this novel as much as I did' Wally
Lamb, author of She's Come Undone
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