| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9781565123342 | | Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill | | Publish Date: 10/20/2006 | | Buy.com Sku: 202438657 | | Item#: RC5JWM | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.5H x 5.5L x 0.75T |
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| | | The Fiske family is gathered at the exquisitely restored New England home of the second of three sisters. The family table groans with the weight of guilt and blame. The result is the taut story of a 21st-century family's unraveling, played against a famous 19th-century writer's own family dysfunction.
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Comparable in both theme and quality to Thomas Vinterberg's brilliant film THE CELEBRATION, Suzanne Berne's novel marshals a grim psychological battle as it unfolds over a Thanksgiving dinner. Cynthia Fisk is lured back to a family reunion hosted by her older sister, shortly after her father has suffered a debilitating stroke. Cynthia's feeling are ambivalent at best--she suspects that her father murdered her mother years ago to make way for his marriage to his daughter's young tutor Ilse. In the pressure-cooker of the dinner party, the secrets of the past begin to boil over, with some family members trying to keep them buried, and other craving for, at last, the truth to be told. Berne, the prestigious winner of Britain's Orange Prize, has concocted another insidiously marvelous black gem.
| Praise| "[Suzanne] Berne takes an inherently dramatic conflict...and ratchets up the stakes with astute observation and narrative cunning." 06/12/2006 "Sampling from a few genres--mystery, historical fiction, chick lit and psychological thriller--[Suzanne] Berne cooks up a literary feast." [Starred review.] 08/01/2006 |
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