Special Relationship - Hardcover

Sisman, Robyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525938729 ISBN 13: 9780525938729

Publisher: Dutton Adult, 1995

Synopsis

Twenty years after having an affair with an English woman, an American presidential candidate learns that he has fathered a son, and the mother is desperate to keep the angry youth from devastating his father's chance for the presidency. A first novel.

About this title

About the Author:

Robyn SismanÂ’s Special Relationship launched her onto the London Times bestseller list, where she returned with Summer in the City and, most recently, Weekend in Paris.

From Publishers Weekly:

It's late October 1992, and 21-year-old Tom Hamilton, son of top London literary agent Anne, has just learned that his biological father is a certain saxophone-playing former Rhodes scholar who is now running hard for the U.S. presidency. That's the premise of Sisman's first novel, which redeems its titillating concept through fluid writing and well-wrought characters. Anne's liaison with Jordan Hope two decades before at Oxford isn't the only secret in her past, as she learns from her dying mother in Chicago, where she has traveled to meet clandestinely with Jordan to discuss the paternity situation. Meanwhile, Tom, seeking Jordan on his own, stops in Manhattan to visit his godmother, the keeper of yet more family secrets. The narrative includes a long and rambunctious flashback to the Oxford and London of the 1960s and their subcultures of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and protest marches. Insider details about the publishing business in London and New York add further to the hard-edged excitement, although the novel's conclusion is too pat. To Sisman's credit, what at first glance appears to be trading on tabloidism turns out to be a fine bit of storytelling, a captivating roman a clef in which politics and passion mix with bombshell potential. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0525938729
• ISBN 13: 9780525938729
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336