Father of the rain
"...Gardiner Amory is a New England WASP who is beginning to feel the cracks in his empire. Nixon is about to be impeached, his wife is leaving him, and his worldview is rapidly becoming outdated. His daughter, Daley, has spent the first eleven years of her life carefully negotiating her parents' co...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West,
c2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | "...Gardiner Amory is a New England WASP who is beginning to feel the cracks in his empire. Nixon is about to be impeached, his wife is leaving him, and his worldview is rapidly becoming outdated. His daughter, Daley, has spent the first eleven years of her life carefully negotiating her parents' conflicting worlds: the liberal, socially committed realm of her mother and the conservative, decadent, liquor-soaked life of her father...As she grows into adulthood, Daley rejects the narrow world that nourished her father's fears and prejudices, and embarks on her own separate life---until he hits rock bottom..."--Dust jacket flap. |
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| Physical Description: | 354 p. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780802119490 0802119492 |
| Author Notes: | King's first novel, The Pleasing Hour was published in 1999, and was followed by The English Teacher and Father of the Rain. Her latest work, Euphoria, won the inaugural Kirkus Award for Fiction 2014, the New England Book Award for Fiction 2014 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. (Bowker Author Biography) |
