
Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn?t like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering Professor at Wellington, a New England Liberal Arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths; Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict atheists. Faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale. Or the encore. Then Jerome, Howard?s oldest son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps. Increasingly, the two families find themselves thrown together in a beautiful corner of America,...
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Jag började läsa den för flera månader sen, sen låg den och för någon vecka sedan fortsatte jag och insåg sedan för ett par dagar sedan att jag bytte bok igen .. alltså; boken var inte särskilt bra. Inte värd att lägga ner sin tid på - så halvfärdig åker den tillbaka till hyllan. Det var synd, eftersom jag har gillat annat hon har skrivit.