Family - Hardcover

Leavitt, Caroline

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877959048 ISBN 13: 9780877959045

Publisher: Arbor House Pub Co, 1987

Synopsis

Two divorces complicate Nick Austen's life and his relationship with his daughter, Robin

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About the Author

Caroline Leavitt is the author of seven novels, including Coming Back To Me. Her stories and essays have appeared in Salon, Redbook, McCalls, Parenting and various anthologies, including Father, Forever Sisters, and A Few Thousand Words About Love. The winner of a 1990 New York Foundation of The Arts Award, and A National Magazine Award nominee, she lives in Northern New Jersey with her husband, the writer Jeff Tamarkin, and their young son Max.

From Library Journal

After the precipitous deaths of his adoring parents at age 12, Nick Austen grows up in a home for boys. Having known love at an early age, he is hungry for companionship but awkward in accepting it. When he finds his first love, Dore, he happily settles into a life of relative domesticity. When their infant daughter dies, the relationship falls apart. Nick finds comfort in the arms of Leslie, who later becomes his wife and mother of another daughter. Though he is crazy about his wife and over-protective of his child, Nick unfortunately remains smitten with Dore. His naked emotions and idiosyncrasies are understandable and endearing. In fact, all the characters are portrayed sympathetically. Leavitt, author of Jealousies ( LJ 8/83), writes persuasively, making us care immediately about this family's interrelationships, struggles, and demise. Recommended.Kimberly G. Allen, Supreme Court Lib., Washington,
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About this edition

• Publisher: Arbor House Pub Co
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0877959048
• ISBN 13: 9780877959045
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280