Shootout with Father by Hauser, Marianne

Shootout with Father (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781573661003)

Vendor: Marianne Hauser
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Shootout with Father by Hauser, Marianne

Shootout with Father

$14.95
Shootout with Father by Hauser, Marianne

Shootout with Father

$14.95
Format: Paperback
Description
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A richly textured novel built around the love-hate conflict between a father and his grown son

The story is told by the son, James, a sculptor of small objet d'art, miniature versions of the armor his father has spent a lifetime collecting. The father's ambiguities become the son's obsession and he finds himself digging deeper and deeper into his father's past in an effort to understand the man before he was a father. He discovers a student filled with romantic dreams and high hopes, a latent homosexual who, after a bizarre episode of dashed expectations, rejects his nature and builds a fortress of denial. These revelations come to light in a suspenseful, many-layered plot that is delivered with a remarkable mixture of sensitivity and biting wit. This work is vintage Hauser, an Oedipal companion piece to The Talking Room, recounting the astonishingly suicidal lengths to which the child in everyone will go to be acknowledged by his or her creator.

Author: Marianne Hauser
ISBN-10: 1573661007
ISBN-13: 9781573661003
Publisher: F2c
Language: English
Published: 04/17/2002
Pages: 89
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.50w x 0.29d

Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 05/27/2002 pg. 39
Entertainment Weekly 08/02/2002 pg. 69
Publishers Weekly 05/27/2002
By Marianne Hauser
By Marianne Hauser
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In the course of her long career, Marianne Hauser published numerous works of fiction, including Prince Ishmael, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and selected by The New York Times as one of the year's outstanding books. Her other books include Monique, Shadow Play in India, Dark Dominion, The Choir Invisible, A Lesson in Music, Me & My Mom, The Memoirs of the Late Mr. Ashley, and The Talking Room. She died in June 2006, at the age of ninety-five.

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