Peter Hedges

The Heights

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Produktbeschreibung

The Welches are seemingly the last middle-class family in the Heights whose world is turned upside down by a new wealthy neighbor. The author of "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" once again turns his keen eye to the surprising truths of daily life.

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A "devilishly delightful" (Bookpage) new novel from an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and the author of What's Eating Gilbert Grape.

Tim and Kate Welch are seemingly the last middle-class family in the exclusive neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, NewYork. Tim is a popular history teacher, and an ordinary guy. Kate is not ordinary, but she aspires to be. Brought up by a hippie mother, Kate stays home with their two young sons trying to be the responsible parent she never had. But their neat and tidy world is turned upside down when Anna Brody- beautiful, wealthy, and impulsive-moves into the most expensive brownstone in Brooklyn, and draws Kate and Tim into her world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin US
• Repr.
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 136mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780452296770
• ISBN-10: 0452296773
• Artikelnr.: 29929462

Autorenporträt

PETER HEDGES is a novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. He wrote both the novel and the screenplay What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, and is the writer-director of Pieces of April starring Katie Holmes and Dan in Real Life starring Steve Carrell. His screenplay for About a Boy was nominated for an Academy Award. Hedges lives with his wife and children in Brooklyn, New York.