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Book SynopsisCy Riemerfifty-ish, divorced, and father of foursurveys 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 blundersand 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 i
