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The lost son / a novel by Brent Spencer.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.P4458 L67 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spencer, Brent.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers and sons--Pennsylvania--Fiction.
- Mothers and sons.
- Pennsylvania.
- Man-woman relationships--Pennsylvania--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 225 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Arcade Pub., [1995]
- Summary:
- Powerful gusts from family fission sweep us into The Lost Son. Having decided men's problems are too far gone for help, Ellen has left Redmond, her lover of twelve years, and Nick, her sixteen-year-old son, and struck out on her own. Redmond was a wide spot in the road, Ellen repeats to herself, nothing more. Leaving him was as clean a getaway as a getaway gets. On the other hand, what she should say to her son is beyond her, so when she calls up and Nick answers, silence does the talking. Pushing his characters to the wild edge of themselves, Brent Spencer allows their voices to tell an unsettling and unforgettable story. Ellen, Redmond, and Nick are the exploded American nuclear family, crucifying one another for all the things life didn't deliver, blaming each other for every wound - including the self-inflicted ones - and hopelessly tangled up.
- ISBN:
- 1559702664 :
- OCLC:
- 31012280
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