The good father
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385535533 (hc.) :
- ISBN: 0385535538 (hc.)
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Physical Description:
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307 p. ; 25 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York ; Toronto : Doubleday, c2012.
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Subject: | Divorced men -- Fiction Remarriage -- Fiction Physicians -- Fiction Fathers and sons -- Fiction |
Genre: | Suspense fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Fernie Heritage Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Fernie Heritage Library | FIC HAW (Text) | 35136000370990 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a contented life in Westport with his second wife and their twin sonshard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that produced a son named Daniel. In the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and affecting novel, Dr. Allen is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot at a rally, and Daniel is caught on video as the assassin. Daniel Allen has always been a good kida decent student, popularbut, as a child of divorce, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. Which may be why, at the age of nineteen, he quietly drops out of Vassar and begins an aimless journey across the United States, during which he sheds his former skin and eventually even changes his name to Carter Allen Cash. Told alternately from the point of view of the guilt-ridden, determined father and his meandering, ruminative son, The Good Father is a powerfully emotional page-turner that keeps one guessing until the very end. This is an absorbing and honest novel about the responsibilitiesand limitationsof being a parent and our capacity to provide our children with unconditional love in the face of an unthinkable situation.