Long Island Compromise

A Novel

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<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Fleishman Is in Trouble<br></i><br>A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: <i>The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Time, The Washington Post, </i>NPR, <i>Vogue, Town &amp; Country, New York Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Parade, Kirkus Reviews<br></i><br>“The best book about America I’ve read lately . . . The novel concerns being Jewish, being an immigrant, class, family, wealth, and how that wealth can disfigure people. It’s all terribly funny, which always helps.”—David Sedaris for <i>Time, </i>“25 Books That Capture This American Moment” <br><br>“Joins the pantheon of great American novels.”—<i>Los Angeles Times<br></i>“Exuberant and absorbing . . . a big old-fashioned social novel.”—<i>The Atlantic</i></b><br><br>In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, beaten, and ransomed. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, and the family moves on, comforted in the realization that if their money was what endangered them, it is also what assured their safety. <br><br>But forty years later, it’s clear that nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has secretly sought closure for decades, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husband’s emotional health. Their three grown children aren’t doing much better: Nathan’s chronic anxiety keeps him from advancing at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anything—drugs, food, women—to numb his terror; and Jenny is so bent on proving that she’s not a product of her family’s pathology that she has come to define it. When they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, they must face questions about the part wealth has played in their lives’ successes and failures and confront the trauma that has stunted each of

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780593133514

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

201 x 131 x 28 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House LLC US