A Family Romance - Meyers, Steven Key
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A Family Romance sweeps through more than 40 years serving up tasty-and profoundly true-takes on American life. In the first part of this family saga, we meet Nat and Viv Handler at their 1959 arrival in Washington, D.C., Viv a devoted mother and wife, Nat a journalist. When he stumbles upon the untold story of President Kennedy's womanizing, Nat sets out to report on it. But the more he tries to get the facts from the President's sexiest mistress, the more he puts his job-and his marriage-at risk. Then we make the acquaintance of Nat and Viv as students in Colorado during World War II. Viv's…mehr

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A Family Romance sweeps through more than 40 years serving up tasty-and profoundly true-takes on American life. In the first part of this family saga, we meet Nat and Viv Handler at their 1959 arrival in Washington, D.C., Viv a devoted mother and wife, Nat a journalist. When he stumbles upon the untold story of President Kennedy's womanizing, Nat sets out to report on it. But the more he tries to get the facts from the President's sexiest mistress, the more he puts his job-and his marriage-at risk. Then we make the acquaintance of Nat and Viv as students in Colorado during World War II. Viv's involved with J.T.-her handsome bad boyfriend-and Nat is stalking them. It's a scene of Swing Era dances, steamy backseats and rationed Coca-Cola, as J.T.-dragging Viv and Nat along-works steadily towards his fate. Years later, in the 1980s, we follow Viv and Nat at the height of their careers through the course of a single day. Living a busy but comfortable life in New York City, Nat's a magazine editor and Viv runs her own business. Looking forward to the future, but inescapably aware of the past, they walk to work, negotiate their offices and office mates, solve crises, go shopping, see a play. Viv rescues an old friend, while Nat inadvertently brings disaster upon a colleague. Fortunately, art reconciles everything in the end. With its wonderful characters and inspired and true-to-life action, A Family Romance is an irresistible tour de force.
Autorenporträt
Steven Key Meyers was born on a farm near Grand Junction, Colorado. While living in New York City, he began writing plays, and later switched to writing fiction. His novels include Good People, All That Money, Queer's Progress, The Wedding on Big Bone Hill, My Mad Russian: Three Tales and Another's Fool. He has also published a biographical study of the once-famous Indiana painter Harvey joiner, as well as a memoir, I Remember Caramoor, recounting his time as teenaged underbutler at that famous Westchester County estate. In 2018 he published a short novel, The Last Posse, making use of several strands of his Texas forebears' history, including the historic posse his great-uncle led in pursuit of outlaw Frank Hollowell, and currently he is at work on a kind of sequel called The Ringers.