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Schroder : a novel / Amity Gaige.
Van Pelt Library PS3557.A3518 S37 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaige, Amity, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Vermont.
- Vermont--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Road fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 272 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Twelve, 2013.
- Summary:
- "Attending summer camp as a boy, Erik Schroder -- a first generation East German immigrant -- adopts the name of Eric Kennedy, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course" -- Jacket flap.
- A lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit. Eric Schroder brings his daughter, Meadow, to Lake Champlain, Vermont, in an attempt to outrun the authorities amid a heated custody battle with his wife-- who will soon discover that her husband is not who he says he is. A deftly imagined novel on the many identities we take on in our lives-- those we are born with and those we construct for ourselves.
- ISBN:
- 9781455512133
- 1455512133
- OCLC:
- 785786661
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