Flesh Wounds - Hardcover

Cochrane, Mick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385486618 ISBN 13: 9780385486613

Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1997

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Book by Cochrane Mick

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The arrest of a Minneapolis salesman for sexually abusing his teenaged granddaughter sends shock waves through his family, from his youngest son--a lawyer whose first instinct is to defend his father--to his eldest daughter, who leaves home

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Wounds is an achingly real, deeply felt first novel in the tradition of Anne Tyler and Ordinary People--a novel that shows us an American family with such startling clarity and compassion that we are completely drawn into their world.
When the police come to arrest Hal Lamm, a Minneapolis salesman, for abusing his 13-year-old granddaughter Becky, his entire family must come to terms with its secrets and unhealed wounds. Hal's wife Phyllis, after decades of denial and emotional estrangement, finally confronts him. Of their four grown-up children, Ellie, herself once abused by Hal, had sought to find strength by moving away, and now discovers it back in the midst of her family. Cal, the youngest son, is a lawyer whose instinct is to defend Hal-until he becomes a father himself. Most poignantly of all, Becky, unconsoled by the parties and gifts her parents give her, and suspicious of the psychiatrist she is now required to see, keeps her rage hidden-and near

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• Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0385486618
• ISBN 13: 9780385486613
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274