Exiles in the Garden

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Filigrane

Année de parution:
2010

ISBN-13: 9780547394374

<DIV><B>A &ldquo;fascinatingly readable&rdquo; novel that ponders &ldquo;where the personal becomes the political or if it is possible to maintain a distinction at all&rdquo; (<I>Miami Herald</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> In his fifty-four years in the US Senate, Kim Malone made a difference. Emulating FDR, he advocated and agitated, fighting for the ideals in which he believed. His son, Alec, however, was a different story&mdash;one Kim thinks on as he lies on his deathbed, with only the prodigal Alec for company.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Eschewing his congressional heritage for a career as a newspaper photographer and distancing himself even further from politics by refusing to cover the Vietnam War, Alec has seemed to live a never-ending series of misadventures, complete with a failed marriage and a floundering vocation. So when his long-absent father-in-law, an antifascist commando from Czechoslovakia, appears on his doorstep, Alec finds himself confronting uncomfortable truths about his life, his choices, and the pasts of those surrounding him.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Ward Just has been praised as &ldquo;one of the most astute writers of American fiction,&rdquo; and <I>Exiles in the Garden</I> stands as one of his most challenging, insightful, and compulsively readable works&mdash;an examination of personal morality, American politics, and the universal desires that bind us all (<I>The New York Times Book Review</I>).</DIV>