The Hazards of Good Breeding: A Novel
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2003
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-05132-2 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-05132-2 (ISBN)
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Caroline Dunlap reluctantly returns home after her college graduation and finds her recently divorced father obsessing about a former housekeeper and her younger brother involved in an ambitious papier-maachae project.
Caroline Dunlap has written off the insular world of the Boston deb parties, golf club luaus, and WASP weddings that she grew up with. But when she reluctantly returns home after her college graduation, she finds that not everything is quite as predictable, or protected, as she had imagined. Her father, the eccentric, puritanical Jack Dunlap, is carrying on stoically after the breakup of his marriage, but he can't stop thinking of Rosita, the family housekeeper he fired almost six months ago. Caroline's little brother, Eliot, is working on a giant papier-mache diorama of their town-or is he hatching a plan of larger proportions? As the real reason for Rosita's departure is revealed, the novel culminates in a series of events that assault the fragile, sheltered, and arguably obsolete world of the Dunlaps. Opening a window into a family's repressed desires and fears, The Hazards of Good Breeding is both funny and startlingly perceptive.
Caroline Dunlap has written off the insular world of the Boston deb parties, golf club luaus, and WASP weddings that she grew up with. But when she reluctantly returns home after her college graduation, she finds that not everything is quite as predictable, or protected, as she had imagined. Her father, the eccentric, puritanical Jack Dunlap, is carrying on stoically after the breakup of his marriage, but he can't stop thinking of Rosita, the family housekeeper he fired almost six months ago. Caroline's little brother, Eliot, is working on a giant papier-mache diorama of their town-or is he hatching a plan of larger proportions? As the real reason for Rosita's departure is revealed, the novel culminates in a series of events that assault the fragile, sheltered, and arguably obsolete world of the Dunlaps. Opening a window into a family's repressed desires and fears, The Hazards of Good Breeding is both funny and startlingly perceptive.
Jessica Shattuck is the New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the Castle, The Hazards of Good Breeding (a New York Times Notable Book and finalist for the PEN/Winship Award), and Perfect Life. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Glamour, Mother Jones, and Wired among others. A graduate of Harvard University, she received her MFA from Columbia University. Shattuck now lives with her husband and three children in Brookline, MA.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.3.2003 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 218 mm |
| Gewicht | 434 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 0-393-05132-3 / 0393051323 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-05132-2 / 9780393051322 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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