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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Picador USA
Publication date July 1, 2003
Pages 320
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780312422318
ISBN-10 0312422318
Dimensions 0.75 by 5.50 by 8.25 in.
Weight 0.60 lbs.
Original list price $22.00
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Summary
Still grieving over the death of their son, who had killed himself ten years before, Morgan, a union activist turned garbage collector, and his pol-sci professor wife, Zhenya, have settled into a static existence, whose routine is shaken by the pregnancy of their teenage daughter and by the arrival of Zhenya's father, a Russian $migr$ writer who turns their lives upside down. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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Century's Son is a piercing and visionary novel that explores the surprisingly diverse lives of one midwestern American family. In the years following the suicide of their teenaged son, husband and wife Morgan and Zhenya have settled into a staid and loveless marriage. Morgan is a one-time union leader who is now happy as a simple garbageman; Zhenya is a professor at the local state university, whose balance is about to be offset by the arrival of her famous father, a Russian political dissident-cum-American cultural critic who, among other things, claims to have had the chance to murder Stalin and now celebrates his hundredth birthday.



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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780375412370
 
from Alfred a Knopf Inc (April 1, 2002)
9780375412370 | details & prices | 307 pages | 6.75 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $24.00
About: Still grieving over the suicide of their son ten years before, Morgan, a union activist turned garbage collector, and Zhenya, a political science professor, have their routine shaken by the pregnancy of their teenage daughter and the arrival of Zhenya's father, a Russian emigre.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780312422318
 
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Reprint edition from Picador USA (July 1, 2003)
9780312422318 | details & prices | 320 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $22.00
About: Still grieving over the death of their son, who had killed himself ten years before, Morgan, a union activist turned garbage collector, and his pol-sci professor wife, Zhenya, have settled into a static existence, whose routine is shaken by the pregnancy of their teenage daughter and by the arrival of Zhenya's father, a Russian émigré writer who turns their lives upside down.

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