Book Description
Twenty-four-year-old college dropout Calvin Moretti moves back home with his parents and two siblings and is forced to deal with their problems, which include his father's cancer and his sister's pregnancy, as well as his own.
Author : Kris D'Agostino
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 27,55 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1565129512
Twenty-four-year-old college dropout Calvin Moretti moves back home with his parents and two siblings and is forced to deal with their problems, which include his father's cancer and his sister's pregnancy, as well as his own.
Author : Kris D'Agostino
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501138995
A family reunites after the death of its patriarch just as a hurricane tears through town in this “sparklingly funny novel about love, power, money, and adult siblings finding the beating heart of what matters most: one another” (People). On the night of a massive hurricane, three estranged siblings learn that their father is dying. For the first time in years, they convene at their childhood home in upstate New York, where the storm has downed power lines, flooded houses, and destroyed the family’s antique store. The Westfalls are no strangers to dysfunction. But never have their lives felt so out of control. Armie is living in their parents’ basement. In Manhattan, Josef, a sex-addicted techie, is struggling to repair his broken relationship with his daughters. Their sister, Charlie, who works in Hollywood as a publicist for a wayward young actress, just learned that her son has been expelled from preschool. Amid the storm, they come together to plan their father’s memorial service, only to learn his dying wish—they must sell his priceless Magritte painting. As their failures are laid bare, they discover that hope often lurks in the darkest of places. And so, too, can hilarity. Complete with an irresistible plot and deeply flawed, affectionately rendered characters, Kris D’Agostino’s “sharp, funny [novel] conveys the disorienting and ever-shifting effects of grief” (The New York Times) and the unexpected epiphanies that emerge in chaos. This “darkly humorous portrait of the American family under duress…balances scathing and humorous commentary on the foibles of family with keen insight” (Publishers Weekly). Perfect for “fans of funny family dysfunction novels like Jonathan Tropper’s This Is Where I Leave You...and Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s The Nest” (Booklist), The Antiques is a heartbreaking, nimble, laugh-out-loud funny send-up of modern family life.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN :
Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2016-10-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781539541196
From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by name of Sleepy Hollow... A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere. Washington Irving
Author : Sharma Shields
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 162779199X
A family patriarch is consumed by the hunt for the mythical, elusive sasquatch he encountered in his youth -- a quest that soon morphs into a desire to slay the beast.
Author : Cecilia Woodall
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 2023-09-15
Category :
ISBN :
A family activity book based on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving featuring anecdotes, coloring book, puzzles, history, trivia, folklore, headless horseman illustrations.
Author : Disney Books
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1368044786
If you were asked to choose the most fabulous character in English literature, who would it be? Perhaps the one and only Ichabod Crane. Just in time for the 70th anniversary of the release of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, relive the action of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow with this storybook, featuring word-for-word narration and sound effects!
Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)
ISBN : 9788125021766
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
Author : Lexi Post
Publisher : Lexi Post
Page : pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category :
ISBN : 9780997000337
Recluse Braeden Van Brunt is not happy to be the Headless Horseman...until he meets Katrina Van Tassel, owner of the Sleepy Hollow Inn, whose allure bewitches him from the front desk into the bedroom. When he discovers Kat and the village of Sleepy Hollow are cursed to exist only in the present day for one weekend a year, he realizes the sacrifice he must make if he wants to keep her. Katrina Van Tassel lives between slivers of time. She thought she was through grieving her betrothed's death, but her dreams flare to life when his mirror-image arrives requesting a room. Drawn to Braeden, she is taken to more erotic heights of intimacy than she ever imagined, but she can't be sure if her heart is with him or with the love from her past. Knowing he must conquer both time and ghosts to keep the only woman he's ever loved, Braeden must put the past to rest. But the dead won't rest in Sleepy Hollow. Author Note: Passion of Sleepy Hollow was previously published by Ellora's Cave in 2014.
Author : Eric Carrasco
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN : 9781613985625