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A Weekend in New York audiobook

  • By: Benjamin Markovits
  • Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: February 19, 2019
  • Language: English
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A Weekend in New York Audiobook Summary

What are you feeling so anxious about? I’m the guy who has to go out there and lose.’ ‘That’s what I don’t like. That’s what you don’t realise. It’s harder on the rest of us.’ ‘I’m sure it must be,’ he said. Tolstoy claimed: ‘All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way’. But what if the happy families are actually the most unusual of all? Paul Essinger is a mid-ranking tennis professional on the ATP tour. His girlfriend Dana is an ex-model and photographer, and the mother of their two-year-old son, Cal. Together they form a tableau of the contented upper-middle-class New York family. But summer storms are blowing through Manhattan, and Paul’s parents have come to stay in the build-up to the US Open. Over the course of the weekend, several generations of domestic tension are brought to boiling point . . . What does it mean to be a family? To be an individual? And how do we deal with the responsibilities these roles impose upon us? A Weekend In New York intertwines the politics of the household and the state to forge a luminous national portrait on a deceptively local scale. Recalling some of America’s most celebrated novelists – this is John Updike’s Rabbit for a new generation – Benjamin Markovits’ writing reminds us of the heights that social realism can reach

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A Weekend in New York Full Details

Length 8 hours 38 minutes
Author Benjamin Markovits
Publisher Recorded Books, Inc.
Release date February 19, 2019
ISBN 9781980017813

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The publisher of the A Weekend in New York is Recorded Books, Inc.. The imprint is Recorded Books, Inc.. It is supplied by Recorded Books, Inc.. The ISBN-13 is 9781980017813.

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