Wolf at the Table
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ISBN10: 0316434167
ISBN13: 9780316434164
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: Mar 19 2024
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Awards: ALA Notable Books
ISBN13: 9780316434164
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: Mar 19 2024
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Awards: ALA Notable Books
The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a family harboring a serial killer in their midst in this masterful novel that peers into the dark heart of America (Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day) As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half a century. As the siblings leave home and fan across the country, each pursues a shard of the American dream. Myra serves as a prison nurse while raising her son, Ronan. Her middle sisters, Lexy and Fiona, find themselves on opposite sides of class and power. Alec, once an altar boy, is banished from the house and drifts into oblivion. As he becomes an increasingly alienated loner, his mother begins to receive postcards full of ominous portent. What they reveal, and what they require, will shatter a family and lead to devastating reckoning. Through one family's pursuit of the American dream, Wolf at the Table explores our consistent proximity to violence and its effects over time. Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp writes with gorgeous acuity, cutting to the heart of each character as he reveals the devastating reality beneath the veneer of good society.
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