{"product_id":"a-fathers-words-paperback","title":"A Father's Words - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Stern\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCy Riemer-fifty-ish, divorced, and father of four-surveys the dispersal of his family with a mixture of anxiety, humor, sadness, and pride. In this wry, moving, and wise novel, Richard Stern offers his masterful portrait of Cy as the quintessential caring yet controlling parent, a relentless seeker of self-knowledge whose search is intensified through conflicts with his brilliant, ne'er-do-well son Jack. The \"manipulation of a smart, sane, self-justifying narrator . . . is not the least of Stern's achievements in this delicate fabrication of tough prose and tender adjustment of sentiment.\"-Geoffrey Wolff, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Richard Stern's novels are robustly intelligent, very funny, and beguilingly humane. He knows as much as anyone writing American prose about family mischief, intellectual shenanigans, love blunders-and about writing American prose.\"-Philip Roth \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A delectable rhetorical display. . . . \"-\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Anyone who has read Richard Stern's previous novels won't need to be told he is an unusually crisp and intelligent writer, with a sharp edge to his wit; and in \u003ci\u003eA Father's Words\u003c\/i\u003e he runs true to form. Many of the book's pleasures are incidental: jokes, intellectual cadenzas, agile turns of phrase . . . The author's powers of farcical invention climax in a brilliant, bitter episode where . . . the younger man proclaims his final failure . . . Mr. Stern has written an excellent novel.\"-John Gross, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Richard Stern is American letters' unsung comic writer about serious matters . . . [\u003ci\u003eA Father's Words\u003c\/i\u003e] produced in this reviewer an apostolic desire to convince a wider audience to try Stern, especially the vintage Stern.\"-Doris Grumbach, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCy Riemer-fifty-ish, divorced and father of four-surveys the dispersal of his family with a mixture of anxiety, humor, sadness, and pride.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 8.05 x 5.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 04, 1990\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754051109152,"sku":"9780226773223","price":46.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ca8ec4520f6525b45cfbab2a8c5f8fd0.webp?v=1780032297","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-fathers-words-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}