LEADER 00000nim a2200421Ki 4500 001 ODN0004529629 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 200731s2019 nyu s 000 1 eng d 020 9781980017615|q(sound recording) 037 CA7726CF-A3ED-4A21-9BE7-89C107437956|bOverDrive, Inc. |nhttp://www.overdrive.com 040 TEFOD|beng|erda|cTEFOD 084 FIC019000|2bisacsh 100 1 Markovits, Benjamin,|eauthor 245 12 A weekend in new york :|bHappy families quartet series, book 1 /|cBenjamin Markovits. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 Prince Frederick :|bRecorded Books Incorporated,|c2019. 300 1 online resource (9 audio files) :|bdigital 306 08:38:33 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 audio|bs|2rdamedia 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|gstereo|2rda 347 audio file|2rda 490 0 Happy Families Quartet. 500 Unabridged. 511 0 Narrator: Benjamin Markovits. 520 '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 538 Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 243105 KB). 650 7 Literature.|2OverDrive 650 17 Fiction.|2OverDrive 655 7 Electronic books.|2local 700 1 Markovits, Benjamin. 914 ODN0004529629
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