Family Romance: A Love Story Hardcover - 2007
by John Lanchester
A memoir by the acclaimed novelist The Wall Street Journal called "blessed with a sense of history, a feeling for place, an observant eye for detail, and an elegant no-frills style."
In their particulars, the Lanchesters were not Every Family. The father was an international banker, the mother a former nun. Yet in the dynamic of family life, their patterns are instantly recognizable. The heart of that dynamic is a built-in tug-of-war: to a young child, a sense of loving protection becomes, as he matures, a set of barriers to be overcome. In his richly told story, John Lanchester brings this dynamic to life, and in the process makes us think about our own family story and about the legacy-emotional, social, intellectual-our parents pass on to us, generation to generation, the bitter with the best.
It was only when his mother died that Lanchester realized how little he really knew his parents. That, too, is in the nature of families: parents keep secrets from their children, and children are happy to acquiesce, not wanting to disturb their universe. But with Julie Lanchester's death-and the cache of papers and letters she left behind-Lanchester set out to reconstruct just who his parents had been. In doing so, he gained extraordinary insight into his own nature, and a deeper understanding of theirs. And because he has the wisdom to see the universal aspects of his story, Family Romance resonates for anyone who has ever felt the push-pull of family love.
Part detective work, part remarkable evocation of character, Family Romance is, above all, compelling storytelling.
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- Title Family Romance: A Love Story
- Author John Lanchester
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 370
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Marian Wood Book, New York
- Date 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780399153006 / 0399153004
- Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.36 x 6.32 x 1.2 in (23.77 x 16.05 x 3.05 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Great Britain, Imperialism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006041666
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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