In the summer of 1976, during their annual retreat on Cape Cod, the McKotch family came apart. Now, twenty years after daughter Gwen was diagnosed with Turner's syndrome—a rare genetic condition that keeps her trapped forever in the body of a child—eminent scientist Frank McKotch is divorced from his pedigreed wife, Paulette. Eldest son Billy, a successful cardiologist, lives a life built on secrets and compromise. His brother Scott awakened from a pot-addled adolescence to a soul-killing job and a regrettable marriage. And Gwen—bright and accomplished but hermetic and emotionally aloof—spurns all social interaction until, well into her thirties, she falls in love for the first time. With compassion and almost painful astuteness, The Condition explores the power of family mythologies—the self-delusions, denials, and inescapable truths that forever bind fathers and mothers and siblings.
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Jennifer Haigh is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Condition; Baker Towers, winner of the 2006 PEN/L.L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author; and Mrs. Kimble, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her short stories have appeared in the Atlantic, Granta, the Saturday Evening Post, and many other publications. She lives in the Boston area.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: OKAZ. Cape Cod, été 1976 : comme chaque année, Frank McKotch, un éminent scientifique, son épouse Paulette et leurs trois enfants passent leurs vacances dans la demeure familiale. C'est à la plage que Frank est frappé par l'apparence de sa cadette. À treize ans, Gwen a encore la taille d'une fillette. Il comprend tout à coup qu'elle est atteinte du syndrome de Turner, et restera à jamais prisonnière de son corps d'enfant. Ce terrible diagnostic ébranle la famille entière : il leur faudra près de vingt ans pour se libérer d'une vaine culpabilisation et retrouver une forme d'équilibre. La Condition : un splendide roman psychologique sur les illusions et les réalités qui relient inéluctablement les parents, les frères et les soeurs. - Nombre de page(s) : 1 vol. (416 p.) - Poids : 524g - Langue : fre - Genre : Littérature Anglo-Saxonne. Seller Inventory # O1549676-666
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