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Disobedience : a novel

Ten years after the events, a man recalls his senior year when he discovered that his mother was having an affair and how this knowledge affected his view of the rest of the family.

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  • "Ten years after the events, a man recalls his senior year when he discovered that his mother was having an affair and how this knowledge affected his view of the rest of the family."@en
  • "A young man awaits the consequences of his mother's extramarital affair with a violin-maker, information he discovers when he accidentally stumbles across her e-mailbox. From Jane Hamilton, author of the beloved New York Times bestsellers A Map of the World and The Book of Ruth, comes a warmly humorous, poignant novel about a young man, his mother's e-mail, and the often surprising path of infidelity. Henry Shaw, a high school senior, is about as comfortable with his family as any seventeen-year-old can be. His father, Kevin, teaches history with a decidedly socialist tinge at the Chicago private school Henry and his sister attend. His mother, Beth, who plays the piano in a group specializing in antique music, is a loving, attentive wife and parent. Henry even accepts the offbeat behavior of his thirteen-year-old sister, Elvira, who is obsessed with Civil War reenactments and insists on dressing in handmade Union uniforms at inopportune times. When he stumbles on his mother's e-mail account, however, Henry realizes that all is not as it seems. There, under the name Liza38, a name that Henry innocently established for her, is undeniable evidence that his mother is having an affair with one Richard Polloco, a violin maker and unlikely paramour who nonetheless has a very appealing way with words and a romantic spirit that, in Henry's estimation, his own father woefully lacks. Against his better judgment, Henry charts the progress of his mother's infatuation, her feelings of euphoria, of guilt, and of profound, touching confusion. His knowledge of Beth's secret life colors his own tentative explorations of love and sex with the ephemeral Lily, and casts a new light on the arguments-usually focused on Elvira-in which his parents regularly indulge. Over the course of his final year of high school, Henry observes each member of the family, trying to anticipate when they will find out about the infidelity and what the knowledge will mean to each of them. Henry's observations, set down ten years after that fateful year, are much more than the "old story" of adultery his mother deemed her affair to be. With her inimitable grace and compassion, Jane Hamilton has created a novel full of gentle humor and rich insights into the nature of love and the deep, mysterious bonds that hold families together."@en
  • "When 17-year-old Henry Shaw accidently stumbles into his mother's e-mail file and finds her confession of infidelity, his image of her is shattered. Unable to resist further eavesdropping, the consequences on family life are irrevocable."
  • "Henry Shaw, a high school senior, is as comfortable with his family as any seventeen-year-old can be. His father teaches history with a socialist tinge at the Chicago private school Henry and his sister attend. However things change one Henry stumbles upon his mother's email account."@en
  • "Henry Shaw, a high school senior from an average upper-middle-class Chicago family, discovers that his mother, a pianist, is having an affair when he accidentally reads her E-mail."
  • "Henry Shaw, a high school senior from an average upper-middle-class Chicago family, discovers that his mother, a pianist, is having an affair when he accidentally reads her E-mail."@en
  • "Henry, 17 ans, vit à Chicago avec sa soeur, son père, professeur d'histoire au lycée privé qu'ils fréquentent, et sa mère, pianiste dans une formation musicale. Il découvre que celle-ci a une liaison avec un violoniste romantique et séduisant. La vie sentimentale et sexuelle du garçon en est bouleversée, et son regard sur les membres de sa famille changé à jamais.--[Memento]."
  • "High school senior Henry Shaw discovers through her e-mail that his mother is having an affair. He waits, wondering when the other members of the family are going to find out and how they will react."
  • "A warmly humorous, poignant novel about a young man, his mother's e-mail, and the often surprising path of infidelity. Henry Shaw, a high school senior, is about as comfortable with his family as any seventeen-year-old can be. His father, Kevin, teaches history with a decidedly socialist tinge at the Chicago private school Henry and his sister attend. His mother, Beth, who plays the piano in a group specializing in antique music, is a loving, attentive wife and parent. Henry even accepts the offbeat behavior of his thirteen-year-old sister, Elvira, who is obsessed with Civil War reenactments and insists on dressing in handmade Union uniforms at inopportune times. When he stumbles on his mother's e-mail account, however, Henry realizes that all is not as it seems. There, under the name Liza38, a name that Henry innocently established for her, is undeniable evidence that his mother is having an affair with one Richard Polloco, a violin maker and unlikely paramour who nonetheless has a very appealing way with words and a romantic spirit that, in Henry's estimation, his own father woefully lacks. Against his better judgment, Henry charts the progress of his mother's infatuation, her feelings of euphoria, of guilt, and of profound, touching confusion. His knowledge of Beth's secret life colors his own tentative explorations of love and sex with the ephemeral Lily, and casts a new light on the arguments-usually focused on Elvira-in which his parents regularly indulge. Over the course of his final year of high school, Henry observes each member of the family, trying to anticipate when they will find out about the infidelity and what the knowledge will mean to each of them. Henry's observations, set down ten years after that fateful year, are much more than the "old story" of adultery his mother deemed her affair to be. A novel full of gentle humor and rich insights into the nature of love and the deep, mysterious bonds that hold families together."@en

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Roman familial"
  • "Love stories"@en

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  • "Disobedience : a novel"@en
  • "Disobedience : a novel"
  • "Der Liebhaber meiner Mutter Roman"
  • "Un Acte De Desobeissance"
  • "Un acte de désobéissance"
  • "Der Liebhaber meiner Mutter : Roman"
  • "Un acte de desobeissance"@en
  • "Disobedience a novel"@en
  • "Disobedience"
  • "Disobedience"@en

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