A01=Richard Russo
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Author_Richard Russo
bands of mourning
bitter mournings
cape cod
cape high
Category1=Fiction
Category=FBA
Category=FS
Category=FXL
Category=NL-FA
chick lit
contemporary
contemporary fiction
COP=United Kingdom
cornwall fiction
Discount=15
empire falls
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eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_modern-contemporary
eq_nobargain
families
family
Format=BC
Format_Paperback
genealogy fiction
grief journal
grieved loss
HMM=198
IMPN=Vintage
ISBN13=9780099541844
keeping mum
Language_English
mohawk
nobodys fool
PA=Available
PD=20100805
POP=London
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
PUB=Vintage Publishing
relationships
romantic comedy
SMM=23
street child
Subject=Modern & Contemporary Fiction
the family plot
the man on the bridge
the man on the street
top 10 fiction
top ten fiction
WG=245
WMM=129
Product details
- ISBN 9780099541844
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 245g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 05 Aug 2010
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: London, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Jack and Joy Griffin are back on Cape Cod - where they spent their hope-filled honeymoon - for a wedding. Cracks are begining to show in Jack's peaceful family life and thirty-four year marriage. He's driving round with his father's ashes in an urn in the boot of his car, haunted by memories of bittersweet family holidays spent at the Cape, while his acerbic mother is very much alive and always on his mobile. He's spent a lifetime trying to be happier than his parents, but has he succeeded?
A year later, at a second wedding, Jack has a second urn in the car, and his life is starting to unravel.
Richard Russo won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his fifth novel, Empire Falls. He is also the author of Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody’s Fool, Straight Man and Bridge of Sighs, as well as a collection of stories, The Whore’s Child and the memoir, On Helwig Street. His original screenplay is the basis for Rowan Atkinson’s film Keeping Mum. He lives with his wife in Maine.
