Roxana Robinson

This Is My Daughter (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A New York Times Notable Book: A luminous, deeply affecting story of divorce, remarriage, and parenthood. Peter and Emma, two single parents who have found love again after failed first marriages, dream of a peaceful and happy blended family with each of their daughters under one roof. They navigate this treacherous territory with the best of intentions, but face resistance from the girls, who, like many children of divorce, find their relationships tinged by grief, anger, and resentment. Emma's three-year-old daughter, Tess, takes to the arrangement while Amanda, Peter's sullen and unhappy seven-year-old, views it as a disaster rather than a fresh start. Over the course of this emotional powerhouse of a novel, Amanda becomes increasingly hostile and alienated-until one night she commits an act that threatens the already fragile bonds of the fledgling family. Set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, This Is My Daughter is a skillful and sensitive portrayal of the challenges facing modern families from master of the contemporary novel Roxana Robinson, whose acute observations of domestic life invite comparison to John Cheever and Henry James.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504025614
• Artikelnr.: 45054854

Autorenporträt

Roxana Robinson (b. 1946) is the author of five novels, most recently Sparta; three short story collections; and the biography Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and Best American Short Stories, among other publications. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Robinson teaches in Hunter College's master of fine arts program and is president of the Authors Guild, the nation's oldest and largest professional organization for writers.