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Other Men's Daughters by Richard Stern (2017, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

ISBN-101681371510

ISBN-139781681371511

eBay Product ID (ePID)234921647

Product Key Features

Book TitleOther Men's Daughters

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicPsychological, Family Life, General, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorRichard Stern

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight9.9 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2016-040725

Reviews"A novel so good it would have been one of the most valid contenders for the Great American Novel of the decade. It may have achieved in a sane, civilized, academic and romantic way what its showier contemporaries miss by a mile. You're not likely to find a better one for a long, long time." --Ann Rosenberg, The Philadelphia Inquirer "It is a pleasure to find a novel written with such intelligence and feeling, a novel that judges none of its people but holds them up to calm and affectionate scrutiny. Other Men's Daughters touches very directly on contemporary experience--it is 'relevant'--but its readl subject is in the disruptions and exaltation of the human heart." --Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World "Richard Stern's style is the mark of an exceptional and delicate attention. Other Men's Daughters is...an impressive pleas for the private life as a continuing subject for serious fiction...there is urgency and power in Stern's treatment of his profound theme: the necessary end of particular seasons in our lives, the pain and confusion and exhilaration of leaving safe old places when they have become truly uninhabitable." --Michael Wood, The New York Review of Books "This is the best novel about divorce and the anguish of a lost family that I have ever read." --Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of History of Religions, at the University of Chicago "A flower-fresh, moon-bright novel...the author being one of those who can convey all of Eros in a snip of dialogue, a few sentences." --Cosmopolitan "No novelist could improve upon Richard Stern's inventory of what Merriwether has to lose...an attractive book and occasionally and extraordinarily touching one." --Time "I think Other Men's Daughters is an important book, one of the few that will be read later. It is brilliantly written, a true novel of manners, sharply observant of surfaces, and, finally, profound." --Herbert Wilner "Stern's accomplishment (here, as in all his work) is to locate precisely the comedy and the pains of a particularly contemporary phenomenon without exaggeration, animus, or operatic ideology.... In all, it is as if Chekhov had written Lolita .... I would hold that in its own felicitous way, Other Men's Daughters is to the sixties what The Great Gatsby was to the twenties, The Grapes of Wrath to the thirties, and Rabbit Is Rich to the eighties: a microscope exactly focused upon a thinly sliced specimen of what was once the present moment." --Philip Roth "The novel's world rings true...we respond to the honesty of Stern's vision." -- Chicago Daily News "For years I have admired the elegant fiction of Richard Stern for its impeccable language, its gracious erudition, and, above all, it's brilliant wit. In Other Men's Daughters , to me his most moving novel, these qualities serve the cause of mercy." --Thomas Berger

Dewey Edition23

Afterword byDoniger, Wendy

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisFor almost six years the Merriwethers of Cambridge have been living a lie. They still share the old house on Acorn Street- wooden, gabled, bellied with bay windows. Nights they can be found gathered in the parlor, reading in their favorite roosts. The children, intelligent, aware; Sarah, bright agreeable; Robert Merriwether, "the helpless man of thought." One summer changes the direction of their lives. Sarah has taken the children to Maine, but for the first time in years Merriwether stays behind in Cambridge to work. A doctor and physiologist, it has been two years since he's done work that has absorbed him. That summer, he eats alone, plays tennis occasionally or rows on the Charles, reads books that he hasn't looked at since his youth and takes walks. His energy turns inward and Merriweather finds Cynthia Ryder, a young summer student who renews his passion and helps him to redefine his life. Other Men's Daughters explores the theme that men are most alike in their most passionate times, but that most men diffuse the passions that first sustained them., "Until the day of Merriwether's departure from the house--a month after his divorce--the Merriwether family looked like an ideally tranquil one" we read on the first page of Other Men's Daughters . It is the late 1960s, and the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are full of long-haired hippies decked out in colorful garb, but Dr. Robert Merriwether, who teaches at Harvard and has been married for a good long time, hardly takes note. Learned, curious, thoughtful, and a creature of habit, Merriwether is anything but an impulsive man, and yet over the summer, while Sarah, his wife, is away on vacation, he meets a summer student, Cynthia Ryder, and before long the two have fallen into bed and in love. Richard Stern's novel is an elegant and unnerving examination of just how cold and destructive a thing love, "the origin of so much story and disorder," can be.

LC Classification NumberPS3569.T39O8 2017