A Dual Inheritance
$27.51
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
24 June 2014
Summary
Autumn 1962: Ed Cantowitz and Hugh Shipley meet in their final year at Harvard. Ed is far removed from Hugh’s privileged upbringing as a Boston Brahmin, yet his drive and ambition outpace Hugh’s ambivalence about his own life. These two young men form an unlikely friendship, bolstered by a fierce shared desire to transcend their circumstances. But in just a few short years, not only do their paths diverge-one rising on Wall Street, the other becoming a kind of global humanitarian-but their fr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349004204 |
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| ISBN-10: | 034900420X |
| Author: | Joanna Hershon |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Blackfriars |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 24 June 2014 |
| Weight: | 426g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 132mm x 35mm |
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A Dual Inheritance is a big, captivating, multigenerational sweep of a romance, ranging from Africa to China to New England’s blue-blooded enclaves. With deftness and swagger, Joanna Hershon spins the intertwining of two Harvard men’s lives into a searching exploration of class and destiny in late twentieth-century America
Hershon writes with great confidence and clarity. You feel secure in her every chiselled sentence as the novel moves forward through the years and across continents, to Tanzania, Haiti and New York. Great stuff - Daily MailA warm, smart, enjoyably complex novel … A Dual Inheritance is an old-fashioned social novel that feels fresh because of its deft, clear-eyed approach to still-unspoken rules about ethnicity, money and identity - San Francisco ChronicleHershon artfully guides us through the lives of Ed and Hugh, college buddies who meet at Harvard in the ‘60s, shifting between their perspectives through adulthood to detail their lingering impact on one another’s lives in such a way that it’ll make you take a second look at all of your relationships - GQAbout The Author
Joanna Hershon
Joanna Hershon is the author of four novels: Swimming, The Outside of August, The German Bride and A Dual Inheritance. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, One Story, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the literary anthologies Brooklyn Was Mine and Freud’s Blind Spot and Berlin Stories - a multimedia journal for NPR Worldwide. She has taught in the Creative Writing department at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the painter Derek Buckner, and their twin sons.
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