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W. W. Norton & Company
May 2010
On Sale: May 3, 2010
602 pages
ISBN: 0393062627
EAN: 9780393062625
Hardcover
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From a luminous storyteller, a highly anticipated new novel
about the American family writ large. Golden Richards,
husband to four wives, father to twenty-eight children, is
having the mother of all midlife crises. His construction
business is failing, his family has grown into an
overpopulated mini-dukedom beset with insurrection and
rivalry, and he is done in with grief: due to the
accidental death of a daughter and the stillbirth of a son,
he has come to doubt the capacity of his own heart. Brady
Udall, one of our finest American fiction writers, tells a
tragicomic story of a deeply faithful man who, crippled by
grief and the demands of work and family, becomes entangled
in an affair that threatens to destroy his family’s future.
Like John Irving and Richard Yates, Udall creates
characters that engage us to the fullest as they grapple
with the nature of need, love, and belonging. Beautifully written, keenly observed, and ultimately
redemptive, The Lonely Polygamist is an unforgettable story
of an American family—with its inevitable dysfunctionality,
heartbreak, and comedy—pushed to its outer limits.
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