| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (9 audio files) : digital |
| Playing Time |
08:38:33 |
| Description |
digital stereo rda |
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audio file rda |
| Series |
Happy Families Quartet.
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| Note |
Unabridged. |
| Performer |
Narrator: Benjamin Markovits. |
| Summary |
'What are you feeling so anxious about? I'm the guy who has to go out there and lose.' 'That's what I don't like. That's what you don't realise. It's harder on the rest of us.' 'I'm sure it must be,' he said. Tolstoy claimed: 'All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way'. But what if the happy families are actually the most unusual of all? Paul Essinger is a mid-ranking tennis professional on the ATP tour. His girlfriend Dana is an ex-model and photographer, and the mother of their two-year-old son, Cal. Together they form a tableau of the contented upper-middle-class New York family. But summer storms are blowing through Manhattan, and Paul's parents have come to stay in the build-up to the US Open. Over the course of the weekend, several generations of domestic tension are brought to boiling point . . . What does it mean to be a family? To be an individual? And how do we deal with the responsibilities these roles impose upon us? A Weekend In New York intertwines the politics of the household and the state to forge a luminous national portrait on a deceptively local scale. Recalling some of America's most celebrated novelists - this is John Updike's Rabbit for a new generation - Benjamin Markovits' writing reminds us of the heights that social realism can reach |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 243105 KB). |
| Subject |
Fiction.
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Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Markovits, Benjamin.
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| ISBN |
9781980017615 (sound recording) |
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