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Item specifics
- Condition
- Pages
- 292
- Publication Date
- 2006-10-20
- ISBN
- 9781565123342
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN-10
1565123344
ISBN-13
9781565123342
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52429009
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ghost at the Table
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Psychological, Sagas, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-040073
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
" Right away . . . you know her story and her style are going to be worth your time and hers-- and you are hooked." -- "USA Today", "Intellectually and emotionally stimulating...recalling the world of Joyce Carol Oates or of Anne Tyler, if she were ominous....Fresh and intriguing." -- San Francisco Chronicle, A " taut psychological drama...Berne takes an inherently dramatic conflict-- one sister's intention to obfuscate the hard truths of the past vs. another's determination to drag them under a spotlight-- and ratchets up the stakes with astute observation and narrative cunning." -- "Publishers Weekly", " The situations [Berne] creates are so compelling-- and so disturbingly familiar-- that it's hard not to be drawn in when everyone's secrets begin to unravel." -- "The Boston Globe", " Delicious. . . . Berne turns a witty tale of holiday dysfunction into a transfixing borderline gothic, her appealing heroine into an unreliable narrator seething with decades-old resentment. Grade: A." -- Entertainment Weekly, " A witty, moving and psychologically astute story about siblings and the disparate ways they remember common experiences from childhood. . . . Wholly engaging, the perfect spark for launching a rich conversation around your own table once the dishes have been cleared." -- Washington Post Book World
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
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., Strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have managed to remain "devoted"--as long as they stay on opposite coasts. When Frances arranges to host Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy family reunion, one that will include the sisters' long-estranged father. Cynthia, however, doesn't understand how Frances can ignore the past their father's presence revives, a past that includes suspicions about their mother's death twenty-five years earlier. As Thanksgiving Day arrives, with a houseful of guests looking forward to dinner, the sisters continue to struggle with different versions of a shared past, their conflict escalating to a dramatic, suspenseful climax., Thanksgiving, homecoming, reunion-- family ideals shared across generations and geography. But does reality ever live up to expectations? The Fiske family is gathered at the exquisitely restored New England home of the second of three sisters. Family apologist Frances has gone to great lengths to bring about a reunion with the sisters' long-estranged father. Unmarried Cynthia, the youngest, has reluctantly come east from California, where she writes books for a series called Sisters of History. Her book-in-progress is about Mark Twain's daughters, whose lives bear an uncomfortable similarity to those of the Fiske sisters. This family Thanksgiving is classically disjointed, driven by old jealousies, dangerous misconceptions, and grudging love-- the worst kind. The family table groans with the weight of guilt and blame. The result is the taut story of a twenty- first-century family's unraveling, played against a famous nineteenth-century writer's own family dysfunction.
LC Classification Number
PS3552.E73114L37
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