- Suburban life, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Fiction, psychological
After his best friend's daughter, Laura, sets her sights on his son, Alec, Pete Dizinoff sees his plans for a perfect son not just unraveling but being destroyed completely and sets out to derail the romance.
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Contemporary, classical in form, spare and intimate.
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- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Lauren Grodstein
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Workman Pub Co, Penguin Random House, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781616200343
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