A friend of the family : a novel / by Lauren Grodstein.
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TextPublication details: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 302 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 1565129164
- 9781565129160
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Main Library | Fiction | Grodstein, Lauren | Available | 33111005706698 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Pete Dizinoff, a skilled and successful New Jersey internist, has a loving and devoted wife, a network of close friends, an impressive house, and, most of all, a son, Alec, now nineteen, on whom he has pinned all his hopes. But Pete hadn't expected his best friend's troubled daughter to set her sights on his boy. When Alec falls under her spell, Pete sets out to derail the romance, never foreseeing the devastating consequences.
In a riveting story of suburban tragedy, Lauren Grodstein charts a father's fall from grace as he struggles to save his family, his reputation, and himself.
After his best friend's daughter, Laura, sets her sights on his son, Alec, Pete Dizinoff sees his plans for a perfect son not just unraveling but being destroyed completely and sets out to derail the romance.