Constance / Patrick McGrath.

• The cool, beautiful Constance Schuyler lives alone in Manhattan in the early 1960s. At a literary party, she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior. Sidney is a single father with a poor marital record, and he pursues Constance with relentless determination. Eventually she surrenders, accepts his marriage proposal, and moves, with some dread, into his dark, book-filled apartment. She can't settle in. She's tortured by memories of the bitterly unhappy childhood she spent with her father in a dilapidated house upstate. When she learns devastating new information about that past, Constance's fragile psyche suffers a profound shock. Her marriage, already tottering, threatens to collapse completely.

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Subject headings

Fathers and daughters  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Spouses  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Dysfunctional families  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Family secrets  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

New York (N.Y.)  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Genre

Skönlitteratur  (saogf)

Romaner  (saogf)

Psychological fiction.  (lcgft.)

Keyword

He.01 Skönlitteratur: engelska: romaner och noveller

Publication and Content Type

813/.54 (DDC)

He.01 (kssb/8)