Fortunate Lives
by Robb Forman Dew
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The Howells family are revisited in the summer of 1991. David, 18, is preparing to go to Harvard and Sarah is now 13. A young woman, Netta Breckenridge, enters the family's lives and creates a fragile domesticity for the Howells.Tags
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Family - 18 yr old going to college summer before
pg 28 -
Interest in anything @ her child - not set life - just book read
pg 60
Fragility Humpty Dumpty - family life
pg 127
peaked at 15/16 "Early Bloom, early Rot"
pg 263 -
"45 years old, father dead, mother failing, Older son adult, daughter growing aloof - soon he + wife all left - too much weight to lose - stripped so lean, attenuated, thinned, chilled in encroaching solitude."
The Howells family are revisited in the summer of 1991. David, 18, is preparing to go to Harvard and Sarah is now 13. A young woman, Netta Breckenridge, enters the family's lives and creates a fragile domesticity for the Howells.
Family - 18 yr old going to college summer before
pg 28 -
Interest in anything @ her child - not set life - just book read
pg 60
Fragility Humpty Dumpty - family life
pg 127
peaked at 15/16 "Early Bloom, early Rot"
pg 263 -
"45 years old, father dead, mother failing, Older son adult, daughter growing aloof - soon he + wife all left - too much weight to lose - stripped so lean, attenuated, thinned, chilled in encroaching solitude."
The Howells family are revisited in the summer of 1991. David, 18, is preparing to go to Harvard and Sarah is now 13. A young woman, Netta Breckenridge, enters the family's lives and creates a fragile domesticity for the Howells.
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The novels of Robb Forman Dew deal primarily with the nature of relationships in contemporary family life. Dale Loves Sophie to Death (1981), a winner of the American Book Award in 1982, inspired a sequel, Fortunate Lives (1992). Her third novel, The Time of Her Life, was published in 1984. Dew has also published a non-fiction work about her own show more family, Family Heart: A Memoir of When Our Son Came Out; and a cookbook, A Southern Thanksgiving: Recipes and Musings for a Manageable Feast (1992). She wrote a fiction trilogy which included The Evidence Against Her (2001), The Truth of the Matter (2005), and Being Polite to Hitler (2011). Dew, born in 1946, was raised in the South and credits time spent living with her grandfather, John Crowe Ransom, poet and critic, as an influence on her writing style. She is married to historian Charles Dew, and has two sons. Rob Forman Dew died at the age of 73 on May 22, 2020. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Fortunate Lives
- Original publication date
- 1992
- Dedication
- For Helen, for Dear, for Elizabeth, and in memory of Robert Edgar Rachal
- First words
- In the late afternoon Dinah retreated to her bedroom in that deadly time before the family had dinner.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)She was pleased and pleasantly energized as she and Martin and Duchess strolled along their own street, past the sweeping estate across the way and the various homes fashioned from a carriage house and out-buildings, past the Davidson's renovated barn, and on to their own house at the end of Slade Road.
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