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That old cape magic

Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father's ashes in the trunk, but his mother is still very much alive, and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura's best friend. But by the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance.

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  • "That old cape magic"@it

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  • "Jack Griffin wollte niemals werden wie seine Eltern. Seit dreißig Jahren ist er verheiratet, hat eine wohlgeratene Tochter und wurde nach seiner Karriere als Hollywood-Drehbuchautor Professor an einem kleinen College im Nordosten. Doch nun ist er Mitte fünfzig und erkennt, dass ihn die Lebensmuster seiner wunderbar scheußlichen Eltern längst eingeholt haben. Der Pulitzer-Preisträger Richard Russo, der in den USA schon seit Langem zu den bedeutenden Schriftstellern zählt, zeigt in seinem facettenreichen Roman, dass wir den Rollenbildern, denen wir zu entfliehen suchen, niemals ganz entkommen: Wir wiederholen sie - oder verkehren sie in ihr Gegenteil. "Diese alte Sehnsucht" führt ebenso unterhaltsam wie kunstvoll vor, dass Familie dort ist, wo uns das Schlimmste, aber auch das Beste geschieht. "Eine romantische Komödie aus der Lebensmitte, voller Humor und Zuversicht."The Guardian"
  • "Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father's ashes in the trunk, but his mother is still very much alive, and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura's best friend. But by the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance."
  • "Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father's ashes in the trunk, but his mother is still very much alive, and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura's best friend. But by the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance."@en
  • "Jack and Joy Griffin are back on Cape Cod - where they spent their hope-filled honeymoon - for a wedding. Cracks are beginning to show in Jack's peaceful family life and thirty-four year marriage. He's spent a lifetime trying to be happier than his parents, but has he succeeded?"@en
  • "Om zijn huwelijksproblemen op te lossen moet een vijftiger zijn hele leven en de waarden en normen waarnaar hij leeft, onder de loep nemen."
  • "On their Cape Cod honeymoon, Jack and Joy Griffin drafted a plan for their future which, after thirty years, has largely been fulfilled. They'd left Los Angeles and Griffin's scriptwriting job behind, wanting family life, and for Jack to teach at the sort of New England college to which his parents had aspired. Now back on the Cape, celebrating the marriage of their daughter Laura's best friend, things look good despite cracks appearing ... Jack drives around with his father's ashes in the car. Laura's boyfriend seems promising - but you have to be careful what you wish for - it could come true. A year later, at her wedding, Jack has a second urn in the car - and his life comes close to unravelling ..."
  • "Jack and Joy Griffin are on Cape Cod to celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura's best friend. Sure, Jack's been driving around with his father's ashes in the trunk, though his mother's very much alive and often on his cell phone. Laura's boyfriend seems promising, but be careful what you pray for, especially if it happens to come true. A year later, at her wedding, Jack has another urn in the car, and both he and Joy have brought new dates."@en
  • "The lives of Jack and Joy Griffin always seem to come back to Cape Cod, where they honeymooned, as they experience the ups and downs of life, including the deaths of Jack's parents, the marriage of their daughter, and Jack and Joy's divorce."
  • "The lives of Jack and Joy Griffin always seem to come back to Cape Cod, where they honeymooned, as they experience the ups and downs of life, including the deaths of Jack's parents, the marriage of their daughter, and Jack and Joy's divorce."@en

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  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Diese alte Sehnsucht : Roman"
  • "格里芬教授的烦恼"
  • "La magia dell'ultima estate"
  • "La magia dell'ultima estate"@it
  • "That old cape magic"@en
  • "That old cape magic"
  • "Ge li fen jiao shou de fan nao"
  • "Diese alte Sehnsucht (Roman)"
  • "Het inzicht van Griffin"
  • "Gelifen jiao shou de fan nao"
  • "Les sortilèges du Cap Cod"
  • "Les sortilèges du Cap Cod : roman"
  • "That Old Cape magic"
  • "Het inzicht van griffin"
  • "That old Cape magic : [a novel]"@en
  • "That old Cape magic"@en
  • "That old Cape magic"
  • "Diese alte Sehnsucht Roman"
  • "That Old Cape Magic"@en

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