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The laments : a novel / by George Hagen.

by Hagen, George, 1958-

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Random House, c2004.

Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.

Infants switched at birth -- Fiction.

Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.

Moving, Household -- Fiction.

Adopted children -- Fiction.

9780340832738 (Sceptre pbk.)

370 p. ; 25 cm.

Ever in search of greener pastures, idealistic but frustrated engineer Howard Lament drags his long-suffering wife, Julia, and their three sons from South Africa to Rhodesia, Bahrain, England and America. The family's rootlessness weighs most heavily on eldest son Will, secretly adopted after a maternity ward mixup goes horribly awry, who feels the odd man out in the face of his constantly changing surroundings and the preternatural solidarity of his twin brothers. A coming-of-age saga and familial drama, often comic in tone but also full of tragedy: car crashes, a kidnapping, death and dismemberment. The Laments give up their privileged status under apartheid and eventually settle for downward mobility in the crass American suburbs.

Psychological fiction.

Bildungsromans.

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