{"product_id":"a-fathers-words-richard-stern-9780226773223","title":"A Father's Words","description":"Cy Riemer--fifty-ish, divorced, and father of four--surveys the dispersal of his family with a mixture of anxiety, humor, sadness, and pride. In this wry, moving, and wise novel, Richard Stern offers his masterful portrait of Cy as the quintessential caring yet controlling parent, a relentless seeker of self-knowledge whose search is intensified through conflicts with his brilliant, ne'er-do-well son Jack. The \"manipulation of a smart, sane, self-justifying narrator . . . is not the least of Stern's achievements in this delicate fabrication of tough prose and tender adjustment of sentiment.\"--Geoffrey Wolff, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Richard Stern's novels are robustly intelligent, very funny, and beguilingly humane. He knows as much as anyone writing American prose about family mischief, intellectual shenanigans, love blunders--and about writing American prose.\"--Philip Roth \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A delectable rhetorical display. . . . \"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Anyone who has read Richard Stern's previous novels won't need to be told he is an unusually crisp and intelligent writer, with a sharp edge to his wit; and in \u003ci\u003eA Father's Words\u003c\/i\u003e he runs true to form. Many of the book's pleasures are incidental: jokes, intellectual cadenzas, agile turns of phrase . . . The author's powers of farcical invention climax in a brilliant, bitter episode where . . . the younger man proclaims his final failure . . . Mr. Stern has written an excellent novel.\"--John Gross, \u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Richard Stern is American letters' unsung comic writer about serious matters . . . [\u003ci\u003eA Father's Words\u003c\/i\u003e] produced in this reviewer an apostolic desire to convince a wider audience to try Stern, especially the vintage Stern.\"--Doris Grumbach, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Stern\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226773221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226773223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/04\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.05h x 5.28w x 0.57d","brand":"Richard Stern","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056657920255,"sku":"9780226773223","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b5495763-9247-4b0f-97af-9315f3d29087.jpg?v=1685042543","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-fathers-words-richard-stern-9780226773223","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}