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Russo, Richard, 1949-
Subjects
College teachers -- Fiction.
Married people -- Fiction.
Midlife crisis -- Fiction.
Introspection -- Fiction.
Reminiscing -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Fiction.
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Russo, Richard, 1949-
College teachers -- Fiction.
Married people -- Fiction.
Midlife crisis -- Fiction.
Introspection -- Fiction.
Reminiscing -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Fiction.
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That
old
Cape
magic
/ Richard Russo.
by
Russo, Richard, 1949-
Random House Large Print, c2009.
Call #:
LP FICTION RUS
Subjects
College teachers -- Fiction.
Married people -- Fiction.
Midlife crisis -- Fiction.
Introspection -- Fiction.
Reminiscing -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Cape
Cod (Mass.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780739328613 (lg. print : softcover)
Edition:
Large print ed. (softcover)
Description:
374 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father’s ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to
Cape
Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura’s best friend. For Griffin this is akin to driving into the past, since he took his childhood summer vacations here, his parents’ respite from the hated Midwest. And the
Cape
is where he and Joy honeymooned, in the course of which they drafted the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their lives together that’s now thirty years
old
and has largely come true. He’d left screenwriting and Los Angeles behind for the sort of New England college his snobby academic parents had always aspired to in vain; they’d moved into an
old
house full of character; and they’d started a family. Check, check and check. But be careful what you pray for, especially if you manage to achieve it. By the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance. And when, a year later, a far more important wedding takes place, their beloved Laura’s, on the coast of Maine, Griffin’s chauffeuring two urns of ashes as he contends once more with Joy and her large, unruly family, and both he and she have brought dates along. How in the world could this have happened? That
Old
Cape
Magic
is a novel of deep introspection and every family feeling imaginable, with a middle-aged man confronting his parents and their failed marriage, his own troubled one, his daughter’s new life and, finally, what it was he thought he wanted and what in fact he has."--Inside jacket.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
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