A Way From Home: A Novel
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Authors: |
Clark, Nancy |
Publisher: |
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
BISAC/Subject: |
FIC019000 |
ISBN: |
9780307424563, Related ISBNs: 0307424561, 0375423281, 1400078717, 9780307424563, 9780375423284 |
Classification: |
Fiction |
Number of pages: |
368, |
Audience: |
General/trade |
Synopsis: It is 1992, and the Lowe family is living in a centuries-old castle in Prague. Alden Lowe works at the Czech Ministry of Finance and his wife Becky advises women entrepreneurs. With their daugher Julie, they appear a fortunate American family, but after twenty years with Alden, Becky shocks the family by fleeing to Libya, where she intends to reunite with a man who has loved her since before her marriage.
In its tale of Americans living abroad and the social reconfigurations that ensue, the captivating A Way from Home is reminiscent of the novels of Edith Wharton and Henry James--with a delicious satiric tang all its own.
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