Other men's daughters / by Richard Stern ; introduction by Philip Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stern, Richard, 1928-2013, author.

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle-aged men--Fiction.

Middle-aged men.

Biology teachers.

College teachers--Fiction.

College teachers.

Biology teachers--Fiction.

Young women--Fiction.

Young women.

Cambridge (Mass.)--Fiction.

Massachusetts--Cambridge.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xii, 253 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, [2017]

Summary:

"Until the day of Merriwether's departure from the house--a month after his divorce--the Merriwether family looked like an ideally tranquil one" we read on the first page of Other Men's Daughters. It is the late 1960s, and the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are full of long-haired hippies decked out in colorful garb, but Dr. Robert Merriwether, who teaches at Harvard and has been married for a good long time, hardly takes note. Learned, curious, thoughtful, and a creature of habit, Merriwether is anything but an impulsive man, and yet over the summer, while Sarah, his wife, is away on vacation, he meets a summer student, Cynthia Ryder, and before long the two have fallen into bed and in love. Richard Stern's novel is an elegant and unnerving examination of just how cold and destructive a thing love, "the origin of so much story and disorder," can be.

ISBN:

9781681371511

1681371510

9781681371528

1681371529

OCLC:

960940340