- Trusts and trustees, Fiction, Brothers and sisters, Inheritance and succession
Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab.
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Contemporary, classical in form, spare and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 387
- Publisher
- Goldmann Verlag, Fleuve éditions, HarperAvenue
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- French, heb, English
- ISBN
- 9781443464574
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