Love and Shame and Love A Novel

Name: Love and Shame and Love A Novel
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ISBN: 9780316129381

ISBN-10: 0316129380

ISBN-13: 9780316129381

Edition: N/A

Authors: Peter Orner

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Alexander Popper can't stop remembering. Four years old when his father tossed him into Lake Michigan, he was told, Sink or swim, kid. In his mind, he's still bobbing in that frigid water. The rest of this novel's vivid cast of characters also struggle to remain afloat: Popper's mother, stymied by an unhappy marriage, seeks solace in the relentless energy of Chicago; his brother, Leo, shadow boss of the family, retreats into books; paternal grandparents, Seymour and Bernice, once high fliers, now mourn for long lost days; his father, a lawyer and would-be politician obsessed with his own success, fails to see that the family is falling apart; and his college girlfriend, the fiercely…

Book details

List price: $16.50
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication date: 11/13/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.902

He was born in chicago in 1968. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he taught in a rural Catholic mission in Africa, received a law degree in Boston & practiced there as a juvenile public defender & then enrolled in the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop. He lectured in law & English in Prague until joining the English department at Miami University in Ohio, where he now lives.