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The Sleeping Father (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781932360004)
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xThe Sleeping Father begins with a divorced dad who inadvertently combines two incompatible anti-depressant medications, goes into a coma, has a stroke, and emerges with brain damage. His teenage son--the protagonist of the book, Chris--and his teenage daughter--Cathy--inherit money from their grandfather and decide to rehabilitate him on their own. decide to make one.
Absent an adequate father, the children decide to make one, bringing with it a host of difficulties and opportunities. Chris tries everything from sex to capitalism in his search for guidance on the path to adulthood and Cathy, believing her secular Jewishness inadequate in the provision of a benign & divine Father, looks to Catholicism for solace and meaning.
The Sleeping Father explores the shift in the way Americans think about mental health: away from regarding ourselves as being shaped by our upbringings and toward regarding ourselves as being shaped by the chemicals in our bloodstreams. The American family, in this novel, emerges as a microcosm of larger social institutions; Moms and Dads as in-home teachers, priests, presidents, and CEOs. In focusing on the Schwartz family in crisis, Sharpe addresses the larger crisis in faith and authority in contemporary American life.
Author: Matthew Sharpe
ISBN-10: 193236000X
ISBN-13: 9781932360004
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2003
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.08w x 0.79d
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/03/2003 pg. 55
Entertainment Weekly 11/28/2003 pg. 131
New York Times 12/28/2003 pg. 6
New York Times 06/06/2004 pg. 28
Absent an adequate father, the children decide to make one, bringing with it a host of difficulties and opportunities. Chris tries everything from sex to capitalism in his search for guidance on the path to adulthood and Cathy, believing her secular Jewishness inadequate in the provision of a benign & divine Father, looks to Catholicism for solace and meaning.
The Sleeping Father explores the shift in the way Americans think about mental health: away from regarding ourselves as being shaped by our upbringings and toward regarding ourselves as being shaped by the chemicals in our bloodstreams. The American family, in this novel, emerges as a microcosm of larger social institutions; Moms and Dads as in-home teachers, priests, presidents, and CEOs. In focusing on the Schwartz family in crisis, Sharpe addresses the larger crisis in faith and authority in contemporary American life.
Author: Matthew Sharpe
ISBN-10: 193236000X
ISBN-13: 9781932360004
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2003
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.08w x 0.79d
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/03/2003 pg. 55
Entertainment Weekly 11/28/2003 pg. 131
New York Times 12/28/2003 pg. 6
New York Times 06/06/2004 pg. 28
By Matthew Sharpe
xMatthew Sharpe is a novelist and short story writer. Born in New York City, but grew up in a small town in Connecticut. Sharpe graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio. Afterwards, he worked at US Magazine until he went back to school at Columbia University, where he pursued an MFA. Since then, he has been teaching creative writing at various institutions including Columbia University, Bard College, the New College of Florida, and Wesleyan University. He is the author of the novels Nothing Is Terrible, The Sleeping Father, Jamestown and You Were Wrong, as well as the short-story collection Stories from the Tube. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper's, Zoetrope, BOMB, McSweeney's, American Letters & Commentary, Southwest Review, and Teachers & Writers magazine. He teaches creative writing at Wesleyean University.
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