Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
Description |
229 pages ; 22 cm |
Summary |
"The cool, beautiful Constance Schuyler lives alone in Manhattan in the early 1960s. At a literary party, she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior. Sidney is a single father with a poor marital record, and he pursues Constance with relentless determination. Eventually she surrenders, accepts his marriage proposal, and moves, with some dread, into his dark, book-filled apartment. She can't settle in. She's tortured by memories of the bitterly unhappy childhood she spent with her father in a dilapidated house upstate. When she learns devastating new information about that past, Constance's fragile psyche suffers a profound shock. Her marriage, already tottering, threatens to collapse completely"--Amazon.com. |
Subject |
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Spouses -- Fiction.
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Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
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Family secrets -- Fiction.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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ISBN |
9781608199433 hardback $25.00 |
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1608199436 hardback $25.00 |
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