This Beautiful Life (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series) - Hardcover

Schulman, Helen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410444279 ISBN 13: 9781410444271

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2012

Synopsis

When the Bergamots move from an upstate college town to New York City, they're not sure how they'll adapt. Soon Richard is consumed by his executive role at a large university. Liz, who gave up an academic career to raise her children, is busy ferrying young Coco around. And fifteen-year-old Jake is taken into the fold at an elite private school. But their upper class cocoon is ripped apart by scandal when Jake causes a good family to face bad choices. Bestseller

About this title

From the Back Cover:

When fifteen-year-old Jake Bergamot receives—and then forwards to a friend—a sexually explicit video that an eighth-grade admirer sent to him, the video goes viral within hours. The scandal that ensues threatens to shatter his family’s sense of security and identity—and, ultimately, their happiness. This Beautiful Life is a devastating, clear-eyed portrait of modern life that will have readers debating their assumptions about family, morality, and the choices we make in the name of love.

About the Author:

HELEN SCHULMAN is the author of the novels A Day at the Beach, P.S., The Revisionist, and Out of Time and the short story collection Not a Free Show. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Vanity Fair, Time, Vogue, GQ, Paris Review, and the New York Times Book Review. She is an associate professor of writing at the New School and lives in New York City with her husband and two children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1410444279
• ISBN 13: 9781410444271
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 316