That Old Cape Magic

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A funny, bittersweet novel about two weddings and a divorce, parents, family myth and memory Zusammenfassung Jack and Joy Griffin are back on Cape Cod - where they spent their hope-filled honeymoon - for a wedding. 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 ascerbic mother is very much alive and always on his mobile.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Russo
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9780099541851
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954185-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 178 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Cape Cod, FICTION / Humorous / General, Massachusetts, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary