Love and Shame and Love |
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| Author:
| Orner, Peter |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4104-4706-7 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2012 |
| Publisher: | Thorndike Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $30.99 |
Book Description:
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Alexander Popper is four years old when his father throws him into Lake Michigan and tells him to sink or swim. The rest of the family also struggles to remain afloat while his father, a lawyer obsessed with his own success, fails to see that his family is falling apart. Covering four decades of Alexander's life, Peter Orner illuminates the many ways that love makes us whole and unravels us.
Alexander Popper is four years old when his father throws him into Lake Michigan and tells him to sink or swim. The rest of the family also struggles to remain afloat while his father, a lawyer obsessed with his own success, fails to see that his family is falling apart. Covering four decades of Alexander's life, Peter Orner illuminates the many ways that love makes us whole and unravels us.