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A Friend of the Family

Overview

Pete Dizinoff, a skilled and successful New Jersey internist, has a loving and devoted wife, a network of close friends, an impressive house, and, most of all, a son, Alec, now nineteen, on whom he has pinned all his hopes. But Pete hadn't expected his best friend's troubled daughter to set her sights on his boy. When Alec falls under her spell, Pete sets out to derail the romance, never foreseeing the devastating consequences.

In a riveting story of suburban tragedy, Lauren Grodstein charts a father's fall from grace as he struggles to save his family, his reputation, and himself. |||This book is sold in the US by Sony Electronics Inc.

Author Information

Lauren Grodstein

Lauren was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Haworth, New Jersey. She attended Columbia University and got her fiction MFA at Columbia's School of the Arts. After spending time as a tutor, a trend-forecaster, and a secretary, she published a collection of stories, The Best of Animals, and a novel, Reproduction is the Flaw of Love. Her novel The Levinson Affair is forthcoming. Lauren currently teaches creative writing at Rutgers University.

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Product Details

  • Published by

    Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

  • Publish Date

    November 08, 2010 

  • Print ISBN

    1616200170

  • eBook ISBN

    9781616200343

  • Imprint

    Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

  • Filesize

    2.38 MB

  • Number of Print Pages*

    320

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