Wolf at the table : a novel / Adam Rapp.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024Edition: First editionDescription: 469 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316434164 (hardcover)
- 0316434167
- FIC 23
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As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half a century. As the siblings leave home and fan across the country, each pursues a shard of the American dream. Myra serves as a prison nurse while raising her son, Ronan. Her middle sisters, Lexy and Fiona, find themselves on opposite sides of class and power. Alec, once an altar boy, is banished from the house and drifts into oblivion. As he becomes an increasingly alienated loner, his mother begins to receive postcards full of ominous portent. What they reveal, and what they require, will shatter a family and lead to devastating reckoning. Through one family's pursuit of the American dream, Wolf at the Table explores our consistent proximity to violence and its effects over time.
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