Description
One of the great bestseller of our time: the novel that inspired Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning film starring Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore
In Ordinary People, Judith Guest’s remarkable first novel, the Jarrets are a typical American family. Calvin is a determined, successful provider and Beth an organized, efficient wife. They had two sons, Conrad and Buck, but now they have one. In this memorable, moving novel, Judith Guest takes the reader into their lives to share their misunderstandings, pain, and ultimate healing. Ordinary People is an extraordinary novel about an “ordinary” family divided by pain, yet bound by their struggle to heal.Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Judith Guest
Published: 10/28/1982
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780140065176
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 0.50″ H x 7.74″ L x 5.02″ W
About the Author
Judith Guest won the Janet Heidegger Kafka Prize for her first novel, Ordinary People, which was made into the Academy Award-winning 1980 film of the same name. Her other novels are Second Heaven, Killing Time in St. Cloud (with Rebecca Hill), Errands, and The Tarnished Eye. Guest lives with her family in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Harrisville, Michigan.
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