A Father's Words (ePub)
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
A tale of the battles between a father and son by an author whose novels are "robustly intelligent, very funny, and beguilingly humane" (Philip Roth).
Cy Riemer is the patriarch of a successful and loving Chicago family. But not all is copacetic in Cy's...
Cy Riemer is the patriarch of a successful and loving Chicago family. But not all is copacetic in Cy's...
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A tale of the battles between a father and son by an author whose novels are "robustly intelligent, very funny, and beguilingly humane" (Philip Roth).
Cy Riemer is the patriarch of a successful and loving Chicago family. But not all is copacetic in Cy's world. The scientific newsletter he publishes is foundering financially, his ex-wife still relies on him for money and intimacy, and he can never seem to find the time or the wherewithal to relax. Much of Cy's stress is caused by the trouble he has with his brilliant and duplicitous son, Jack.
With a mixture of humor, grief, and astonishment, Cy becomes our tour guide to the Riemer family's museum of triumphs and tragedies. A comic and clear-eyed portrait of the quintessential worried father and the son who lives to torture him, A Father's Words is packed with Richard Stern's trademark wit, compassion, and insight.
Cy Riemer is the patriarch of a successful and loving Chicago family. But not all is copacetic in Cy's world. The scientific newsletter he publishes is foundering financially, his ex-wife still relies on him for money and intimacy, and he can never seem to find the time or the wherewithal to relax. Much of Cy's stress is caused by the trouble he has with his brilliant and duplicitous son, Jack.
With a mixture of humor, grief, and astonishment, Cy becomes our tour guide to the Riemer family's museum of triumphs and tragedies. A comic and clear-eyed portrait of the quintessential worried father and the son who lives to torture him, A Father's Words is packed with Richard Stern's trademark wit, compassion, and insight.
Autoren-Porträt von Richard Stern
Richard Stern (1928-2013) was the acclaimed author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels Other Men's Daughters, Golk, Stitch, and Natural Shocks. Born in New York City, he attended the University of North Carolina and received his master's degree from Harvard University and his PhD from the University of Iowa. The recipient of many honors, including the Award of Merit for the Novel, given once every six years by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Stern was a longtime professor of English at the University of Chicago, where he taught alongside Saul Bellow. He counted Flannery O'Connor, Norman Mailer, Anthony Burgess, Lillian Hellman, John Cheever, John Berryman, and Philip Roth among his many other literary admirers.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Richard Stern
- 2014, 181 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- ISBN-10: 1497685338
- ISBN-13: 9781497685338
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.12.2014
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Pressezitat
“Richard Stern’s novels are robustly intelligent, very funny, and beguilingly humane. He knows as much as anyone writing American prose about family mischief, intellectual shenanigans, love blunders—and about writing American prose.” —Philip Roth“A delectable rhetorical display.” —The New Yorker
“Anyone who has read Richard Stern’s previous novels won’t need to be told he is an unusually crisp and intelligent writer, with a sharp edge to his wit; and in A Father’s Words he runs true to form. . . . Excellent.” —The New York Times
“Richard Stern is American letters’ unsung comic writer about serious matters. . . . [A Father’s Words] produced in this reviewer an apostolic desire to convince a wider audience to try Stern, especially this vintage Stern.” —Doris Grumbach
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