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Availability:In StockContributor:Adam RappPublish date:2024-03-19Pages:480
Language:EnglishPublisher:Little Brown and CompanyISBN-13:9780316434164ISBN-10:316434167UPC:9780316434164Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Family Life, Sagas, HistoricalBook Topic:Siblings, 20th CenturySize:9.30 x 6.20 x 1.70 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SC9EXH97N3
The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a family harboring a serial killer in their midst in this "masterful novel" that "peers into the dark heart of America" (Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day)

As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half a century.

As the siblings leave home and fan across the country, each pursues a shard of the American dream. Myra serves as a prison nurse while raising her son, Ronan. Her middle sisters, Lexy and Fiona, find themselves on opposite sides of class and power. Alec, once an altar boy, is banished from the house and drifts into oblivion. As he becomes an increasingly alienated loner, his mother begins to receive postcards full of ominous portent. What they reveal, and what they require, will shatter a family and lead to devastating reckoning.

Through one family's pursuit of the American dream, Wolf at the Table explores our consistent proximity to violence and its effects over time. Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp writes with gorgeous acuity, cutting to the heart of each character as he reveals the devastating reality beneath the veneer of good society.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Little Brown and CompanyISBN-13:9780316434164ISBN-10:316434167UPC:9780316434164Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Family Life, Sagas, HistoricalBook Topic:Siblings, 20th CenturySize:9.30 x 6.20 x 1.70 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SC9EXH97N3
An acclaimed playwright, Adam Rapp was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his play Red Light Winter and a Tony Award finalist for The Sound Inside. He is the recipient of the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other honors. In addition to his numerous plays, he is the author of the novels Know Your Beholder and The Year of Endless Sorrows and several YA novels, including Under the Wolf, Under the Dog, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. For television, he has written and produced for The L Word, In Treatment, and The Looming Tower and is currently executive producer and showrunner for American Rust: Broken Justice. Born in Chicago and raised in nearby Joliet, Illinois, Rapp now splits his time between New York City and upstate New York.
Publisher: Little Brown and Company

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