Fortunate Lives (1992)

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.

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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.

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1992

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For Helen, for Dear, for Elizabeth, and in memory of Robert Edgar Rachal

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In the late afternoon Dinah retreated to her bedroom in that deadly time before the family had dinner.

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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.

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It is another summer of transition for the Howells family-Dinah, Martin, and their children, the characaters whom RFD so memorably introduced in her National Book Award-winning first novel, Dale Loves Sophie to Death. With the impending departure of eighteen-year-old David for his first year at Harvard. Dinah struggles against a nearly paralyzing sense of loss. At the same time, the arrival in town of an earnest and naively manipulative young woman begins to expose the surprisingly fragile construction of the Howellses' determindedly fortunate lives. (0-316-89068-5)

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