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Purple America : a novel

A son returns home to look after his mother, abandoned by his stepfather. The novel follows him as he handles the chores, gets drunk and has a romance on the side. The mother, in a wheel chair and incontinent, extracts a promise that he will kill her if she gets worse. In the background hovers the stepfather, unable to decide whether to return. The setting is a wealthy suburb in Connecticut. By the author of The Ice Storm.

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  • "A son returns home to look after his mother, abandoned by his stepfather. The novel follows him as he handles the chores, gets drunk and has a romance on the side. The mother, in a wheel chair and incontinent, extracts a promise that he will kill her if she gets worse. In the background hovers the stepfather, unable to decide whether to return. The setting is a wealthy suburb in Connecticut. By the author of The Ice Storm."@en
  • "A son returns home to look after his mother, abandoned by his stepfather. The novel follows him as he handles the chores, gets drunk and has a romance on the side. The mother, in a wheel chair and incontinent, extracts a promise that he will kill her if she gets worse. In the background hovers the stepfather, unable to decide whether to return. The setting is a wealthy suburb in Connecticut. By the author of The Ice Storm."
  • "L'histoire d'une famille à l'agonie. Billie Raitliffe, atteinte d'une maladie neurovégétative grave, vit dans le Connecticut, dans un manoir qui tombe en ruine. Son second mari quitte son poste et l'abandonne. Le fils de Billie, Hex, vient alors lui rendre visite pour un week-end. Même si Hex vacille dans ce présent catastrophique, sa famille a connu de beaux jours..."

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
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  • "Domestic fiction"

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  • "Purple America : a novel"@en
  • "Purple America : a novel"
  • "Ein amerikanisches Wochenende Roman"
  • "Purple America"@en
  • "Purple America"
  • "Rosso americano"
  • "Rosso americano"@it
  • "América púrpura"
  • "Lila Amerika"@hu
  • "Lila Amerika"
  • "Ein amerikanisches Wochenende : Roman"
  • "América ocaso"@es
  • "América ocaso"
  • "Amerikaans barok"
  • "Purple America : roman"
  • "Purpurna Amerika"
  • "Ē porphyrē Amerikē : mythistorēma"

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