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Karen and Rob are the well-intentioned parents of a teenage son, Tommy, who believe they can avoid the emotional fallout of their failed two-career marriage. Both are successful individuals who have pursued other personal relationships since their divorce, but have managed to stay connected through their son. When Tommy goes off the tracks, his troubles send shock waves through relationships on all sides. Staggering under the weight of his parents' expectations and need for denial, Tommy risks everything—and Avery Corman turns everyday life into a brilliant page-turning drama. Not since Kramer vs. Kramer, Corman's landmark novel and the basis for the Academy Award-winning motion picture, have truths about us—about marriage, divorce and parenting—been so accurately and emotionally dramatized.
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“Corman writes with a warm and wise empathy that could strike a chord with many.” –Publishers Weekly
"Avery Corman apparently knows how it all works—or doesn't—with the fast track urban middle-class: career, workaholism, divorce and children, single parent stress, SAT stress, copelessness that passes for coping. In this densely detailed, fast-moving story that has the scope of cultural anthropology, he is compassionate, clinical and funny. And with a surprise at the end that is credible as well as heart-warming." –Jules Feiffer
“A hard and lovely take on the psychological and emotional costs that even the most civilized divorce can exact on parents and children....Corman's observations are subtle, yet bracing; his dialogue lean, yet potent; his wisdom confronting, yet humane. There may not be a perfect divorce, but Corman may have written a perfect book on divorce.” –Sunday Oregonian
“This is life after Kramer vs. Kramer, tender, tough and so true it hurts. In crystal clear prose, Corman superbly lays bare the secrets we hide, even from ourselves.” –Barbara Goldsmith, author of Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull, Johnson v. Johnson, and Little Gloria...Happy at Last
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Avery Corman is the author of Kramer vs. Kramer, the novel that helped redefine child custody and divorce, and the basis for the Academy Award-winning motion picture. His other novels include The Old Neighborhood, 50, Prized Possessions, and Oh, God! He lives in New York City.
“Corman writes with a warm and wise empathy that could strike a chord with many.” –Publishers Weekly
"Avery Corman apparently knows how it all works—or doesn't—with the fast track urban middle-class: career, workaholism, divorce and children, single parent stress, SAT stress, copelessness that passes for coping. In this densely detailed, fast-moving story that has the scope of cultural anthropology, he is compassionate, clinical and funny. And with a surprise at the end that is credible as well as heart-warming." –Jules Feiffer
“A hard and lovely take on the psychological and emotional costs that even the most civilized divorce can exact on parents and children....Corman's observations are subtle, yet bracing; his dialogue lean, yet potent; his wisdom confronting, yet humane. There may not be a perfect divorce, but Corman may have written a perfect book on divorce.” –Sunday Oregonian
“This is life after Kramer vs. Kramer, tender, tough and so true it hurts. In crystal clear prose, Corman superbly lays bare the secrets we hide, even from ourselves.” –Barbara Goldsmith, author of Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull, Johnson v. Johnson, and Little Gloria...Happy at Last
Avery Corman is the author of Kramer vs. Kramer, the novel that helped redefine child custody and divorce, and the basis for the Academy Award-winning motion picture. His other novels include The Old Neighborhood, 50, Prized Possessions, and Oh, God! He lives in New York City.
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- PublisherSt. Martin's Griffin
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0312329849
- ISBN 13 9780312329846
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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