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Reagan Arthur Books
March 2013
On Sale: March 12, 2013
ISBN: 0316206091
EAN: 9780316206099
Kindle: B008TUD92E
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Fiction Family Life
A dazzling story of fathers, sons, and brothers -
bound by love, divided by history
The
Auberons are a lovably neurotic, infernally intelligent
family who love and hate each other-and themselves-- in
equal measure.
Driven both by grief at his young
mother's death and war with his distant, abusive immigrant
father, patriarch Isidore almost attains the life of his
dreams: he works his way through Harvard and then medical
school; he marries a beautiful and even-keeled girl; in his
father-in-law, he finds the father he always wanted; and he
becomes a father himself. He has talent, but he also has
rage, and happiness is not meant to be his for very long.
Isidore's sons, Leo and Mack, haunted by the
mythic, epic proportions of their father's heroics and the
tragic events that marked their early lives, have
alternately relied upon and disappointed one another since
the day Mack was born. For Leo, who is angry at the world
but angrier at himself, the burden of the past shapes his
future: sexual awakening, first love, and restless attempts
live up to his father's ideals.
Just when Leo
reaches a crossroads between potential self-destruction and
new freedom, Mack invites him on a road trip from Los
Angeles to Cleveland. As the brothers make their way east,
and towards understanding, their battles and reconciliations
illuminate the power of family to both destroy and
empower-and the price and rewards of independence.
Part family saga, part coming-of-age story, In the Land
of the Living is a kinetic, fresh, bawdy yet earnest
shot to the heart of a novel about coping with death, and
figuring out how and why to live.
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