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Richard Russo
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House
Publication date
August 4, 2009
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780739318928
ISBN-10
0739318926
Dimensions
1.25 by 5 by 6 in.
Weight
0.56 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$40.00
Other format details
audio
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Following Bridge of Sighsâa national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as âan astounding achievementâ and âa masterpieceââRichard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.
Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his fatherâs ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Lauraâs best friend. For Griffin this is akin to driving into the past, since he took his childhood summer vacations here, his parentsâ respite from the hated Midwest. And the Cape is where he and Joy honeymooned, in the course of which they drafted the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their lives together thatâs now thirty years old and has largely come true. Heâd left screenwriting and Los Angeles behind for the sort of New England college his snobby academic parents had always aspired to in vain; theyâd moved into an old house full of character; and theyâd started a family. Check, check and check.
But be careful what you pray for, especially if you manage to achieve it. By the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance. And when, a year later, a far more important wedding takes place, their beloved Lauraâs, on the coast of Maine, Griffinâs chauffeuring two urns of ashes as he contends once more with Joy and her large, unruly family, and both he and she have brought dates along. How in the world could this have happened?
That Old Cape Magic is a novel of deep introspection and every family feeling imaginable, with a middle-aged man confronting his parents and their failed marriage, his own troubled one, his daughterâs new life and, finally, what it was he thought he wanted and what in fact he has. The storytelling is flawless throughout, moments of great comedy and even hilarity alternating with others of rueful understanding and heart-stopping sadness, and its ending is at once surprising, uplifting and unlike anything this Pulitzer Prize winner has ever written.
From the Hardcover edition.
Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his fatherâs ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Lauraâs best friend. For Griffin this is akin to driving into the past, since he took his childhood summer vacations here, his parentsâ respite from the hated Midwest. And the Cape is where he and Joy honeymooned, in the course of which they drafted the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their lives together thatâs now thirty years old and has largely come true. Heâd left screenwriting and Los Angeles behind for the sort of New England college his snobby academic parents had always aspired to in vain; theyâd moved into an old house full of character; and theyâd started a family. Check, check and check.
But be careful what you pray for, especially if you manage to achieve it. By the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance. And when, a year later, a far more important wedding takes place, their beloved Lauraâs, on the coast of Maine, Griffinâs chauffeuring two urns of ashes as he contends once more with Joy and her large, unruly family, and both he and she have brought dates along. How in the world could this have happened?
That Old Cape Magic is a novel of deep introspection and every family feeling imaginable, with a middle-aged man confronting his parents and their failed marriage, his own troubled one, his daughterâs new life and, finally, what it was he thought he wanted and what in fact he has. The storytelling is flawless throughout, moments of great comedy and even hilarity alternating with others of rueful understanding and heart-stopping sadness, and its ending is at once surprising, uplifting and unlike anything this Pulitzer Prize winner has ever written.
From the Hardcover edition.
Editions
Hardcover
1 edition from Alfred a Knopf Inc (August 4, 2009)
9780375414961 | details & prices | 261 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $25.95
About: A great read about Cape Cod.
About: A great read about Cape Cod.
Paperback
1 reprint edition from Vintage Books (June 1, 2010)
9781400030910 | details & prices | 261 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $15.00
About: For Griffin, all paths, all memories, converge at Cape Cod.
About: For Griffin, all paths, all memories, converge at Cape Cod.
from Random House (June 1, 2010)
9780307739940 | details & prices | 261 pages | 4.25 × 7.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $7.99
About: For Griffin, all paths, all memories, converge at Cape Cod.
About: For Griffin, all paths, all memories, converge at Cape Cod.
from Gardners Books (June 1, 2010)
9780099541851 | details & prices | 4.25 × 7.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.42 lbs | List price $10.15
About: For Griffin, all paths, all memories, converge at Cape Cod.
About: For Griffin, all paths, all memories, converge at Cape Cod.
Large print edition from Random House Large Print (August 4, 2009)
9780739328613 | details & prices | 496 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $26.00
About: Following Bridge of Sighsâa national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as âan astounding achievementâ and âa masterpieceââRichard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.
About: Following Bridge of Sighsâa national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as âan astounding achievementâ and âa masterpieceââRichard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.
Miscellaneous
from Vintage Books (August 4, 2009)
9780307273307 | details & prices | 272 pages | List price $15.00
CD/Spoken Word
The price comparison is for this edition
With Arthur Morey (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Random House (August 4, 2009)
9780739318928 | details & prices | 5.00 × 6.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.56 lbs | List price $40.00
About: Following Bridge of Sighsâa national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as âan astounding achievementâ and âa masterpieceââRichard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.
About: Following Bridge of Sighsâa national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as âan astounding achievementâ and âa masterpieceââRichard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.
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