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American Family
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American Family

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AMERICAN FAMILY is Tom Gannon's confession-a story of secrets and sins, set in 1950's America. Haunted by memories of his heroic father, Joe; his complicated grandfather, Hank; his stoic mother, Mary; and his boldly courageous sister, Liz, he weaves an engrossing tale-a classic narrative of love, courage, betrayal, and redemption-which he calls the story of a family, told by its "least worthy member".

American Family invokes a time when New York real estate development was controlled by arbitrary power-politics and prejudice, and when Congressional investigations into Communist influence in American institutions cast shadows of fear and suspicion over day-to-day life.

Robert Crooke summons a rich cast of characters onto this stage, and though they voice a variety of political convictions, this novelist is suspicious of extremes in ideology. It's more the human heart that interests him. And through the observant eyes of his flawed narrator, reminiscent of Holden Caulfield and Huck Finn, he takes an unforgettable journey into the moral truth of America's past-and present. It is an extraordinary reading experience in fiction.

LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateDec 20, 2004
ISBN9780595783663
American Family
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Robert Crooke

Robert Crooke is a journalist, media executive and teacher. His poetry has been published in the West Hills Review, the literary journal of the Walt Whitman Birthplace in Long Island. He has lectured at the University of Connecticut, the University of Nebraska, New York University, and Suff olk County Community College. He began his career as a sports reporter and columnist for the Long Island Press and for thirteen years served as North American press spokesman for Reuters. His three prior novels, American Family (2005), Sunrise (2007), and Th e Earth and Its Sorrows (2010), have received generous critical praise. He and his wife live in Bridgewater, CT.

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