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Long Island Compromise : A Novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (2024, Hardcover)

Description: Condition: Good. Packed in a RIGID mailer with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos!) Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free, fine edges. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, light bumping to edges, crease at bottom spine. Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California. ABOUT: In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety.But now, nearly forty years later, it’s clear that perhaps nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has spent the ensuing years secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husband’s emotional health. Their three grown children aren’t doing much better: Nathan’s chronic fear won’t allow him to advance at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anything—substance, foodstuff, women—in order to numb his own perpetual terror; and Jenny has spent her life so bent on proving that she’s not a product of her family’s pathology that she has come to define it. As they hover at the delicate precipice of a different kind of survival, they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, and they must face desperate questions about how much their wealth has played a part in both their lives’ successes and failures.Long Island Compromise spans the entirety of one family’s history, winding through decades and generations, all the way to the outrageous present, and confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives’ tales, evil eyes, ambition, achievement, boredom, dybbuks, inheritance, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta-blockers, psychics, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.

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Location: Van Nuys, California

End Time: 2024-12-15T22:20:32.000Z

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Long Island Compromise : A Novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (2024, Hardcover)Long Island Compromise : A Novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (2024, Hardcover)

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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer

All returns accepted: Returns Accepted

Item must be returned within: 30 Days

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Narrative Type: Fiction

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Book Title: Long Island Compromise : a Novel

Number of Pages: 464 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Publication Year: 2024

Item Height: 1.4 in

Topic: Family Life, Satire, Literary

Genre: Fiction

Item Weight: 25 oz

Item Length: 9.6 in

Author: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Item Width: 6.5 in

Format: Hardcover

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