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A Father's Words Author: Richard Stern

ISBN: 9780226773223 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 192 Published: 17 December 1985 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 20.3 x 13.4 x 1.4 Description: Cy Riemer--fifty-ish, divorced, and father of four--surveys the dispersal of his family with a mixture of anxiety, humor, sadness, and pride. In this wry, moving, and wise novel, Richard Stern offers his masterful portrait of Cy as the quintessential caring yet controlling parent, a relentless seeker of self-knowledge whose search is intensified through conflicts with his brilliant, ne'er-do-well son Jack. The "manipulation of a smart, sane, self-justifying narrator . . . is not the least of Stern's achievements in this delicate fabrication of tough prose and tender adjustment of sentiment."--Geoffrey Wolff, "Los Angeles Times " "Richard Stern's novels are robustly intelligent, very funny, and beguilingly humane. He knows as much as anyone writing American prose about family mischief, intellectual shenanigans, love blunders--and about writing American prose."--Philip Roth "A delectable rhetorical display. . . . "--"The New Yorker " "Anyone who has read Richard Stern's previous novels won't need to be told he is an unusually crisp and intelligent writer, with a sharp edge to his wit; and in

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