| Split Estate Contributor(s): Bacon, Charlotte (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312428219 ISBN-13: 9780312428211 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: Bacons luminous new novel tracks the King family as it struggles to survive the aftermath of Mrs. Kings suicide. Arthur King decides he and his children must move back to his home state of Wyoming, where they struggle to deal with the irrevocable damage to their lives and surroundings. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.85 lbs) 304 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Arthur King has lived in New York for all his adult life when his wife commits suicide one afternoon while he's away. Left alone with two teenage children, overwhelmed by the prospect of city life without his wife, Arthur decides to move the family to the small Wyoming town where he grew up. They are welcomed there by his mother, a tough, observant Western woman still clinging to the family ranch (while protesting local drilling companies on the side). In elegant, penetrating prose, Charlotte Bacon follows the surviving Kings through the course of a summer as they come to terms with the emptiness-and the openness-of their new landscape, and confront the grief that glares out at them everywhere. Split Estate is a heartrending portrait of a family uprooted and struggling to reconnect in a world irrevocably changed by loss. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bacon, Charlotte: - Charlotte Bacon is the award-winning author of Lost Geography (FSG, 2000) and A |