The suicide of their son, Philip, some ten years before has left the pair emotionally dead, lacking even the courage or initiative to separate from each other. He is a former labor organizer who now works as a garbage collector, and she is a political science professor and the daughter of a prominent Russian emigre. In the small college town of Hayden, Illinois, Morgan and Zhenya have settled into a loveless, stagnant marriage. Only a handful of Boswell's contemporaries have written anything better than Century's Son." Kirkus Reviews From Robert Boswell, one of America's most acclaimed and gifted writers, the story of a Midwestern family riven and bound together by tragedy, love, and circumstance. "A moving portrait of a family united and divided by a tragic loss, a subtle meditation on moral responsibility, and a slyly funny comedy of errors, Century's Son is a heartbreaking, ultimately exhilarating novel by one of America's finest writers." Tom Perrotta, author of Election "The texture of this replete portrayal of Middle America and its discontents suggests an inspired collaboration between Anne Tyler and John Cheever. "A moving portrait of a family united and divided by a tragic loss, a subtle meditation on moral responsibility, and a slyly funny comedy of errors, Century's Son is a heartbreaking, ultimately exhilarating novel by one of America's finest writers.".
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