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Barcode37821002561799
StatusChecked Out
LocationMarshall District
TitleFatherland : a novel / Victoria Shorr.
AuthorShorr, Victoria, author.
Call NoFIC SHO
CollectionAdult New Arrivals
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FIC SHO Due on 5/1/2026  

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781324117551
International Standard Book Number 1324117559
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813.6
Personal Name Shorr, Victoria, author.
Title Statement Fatherland : a novel / Victoria Shorr.
Edition Statement First edition.
Imprint New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2026.
Physical Description 237 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary, Etc. "Beautiful, brilliant Lora defies the wishes of her affluent middle-class family when she quits college and elopes with Henry Brier, an upstart medical student, on the eve of his departure for the war in the South Pacific. Twelve years later, Henry and Lora are Dr. and Mrs. Henry Brier, admired and respected in their tight-knit community in Youngstown, Ohio, with three children, a gorgeous, well-appointed house on a tree-lined street, with a Buick in the garage and membership to the local country club, where the husbands play golf and the wives sip tea and martinis, and the kids frolic in the pool. Their lives could not be more idyllic ... except Henry is fed up with fatherhood, he's caught up in another affair, and he and Lora are on the brink of a scandalous divorce. When Henry abruptly abandons the family-resettling in a new house in the same town with a new wife and child-Lora and her children face the devastating question of how to move on from, and without, the husband and father they loved. Written in fluid, supple prose and infused with emotion, Fatherland is a story of an American Dream gone burst, of broken promises and commitments, but it is also a beautifully crafted paean to the joys of family and the benefits of community"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Fathers and daughters Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Adultery Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Families Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term American Dream Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Desertion and non-support Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels.
Index Term-Genre/Form Psychological fiction.

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