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Simon and Schuster
May 2011
On Sale: April 26, 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 1451617402
EAN: 9781451617405
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A generational novel which opens memorably in a fur storage
house in Los Angeles with its American protagonist as a boy
trying on Marilyn Monroe’s coat. When he grows up, Stephen
goes to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, and stays on to avoid
the draft and Vietnam. He marries an Englishwoman, and they
experience many of the things the baby boomer generation
went through. Later the torch is passed to their children.
In addition, Stephen’s father Si makes a dramatic
reappearance after Stephen’s mother dies. This is a big,
capacious novel, bursting with wonderful characters and ideas.
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