Book
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Father of the rain : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION KING (CEN)
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press : distributed by Publishers Group West, c2010.
Physical Description
354 p. ; 24 cm.
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 Nixon is about to be impeached, his wife is leaving him, and his worldview is rapidly becoming outdated.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.