The Brothers K
By David James DuncanDuncan took almost 10 years to follow up the publication of his much-praised first novel, The River Why, but this massive second effort is well worth the wait. It is a stunning work: a complex tapestry of family tensions, baseball, politics and religion, by turns hilariously funny and agonizingly sad. Highly inventive formally, the novel is mainly narrated by Kincaid Chance, the youngest son in a family of four boys and identical twin girls, the children of Hugh Chance, a discouraged minor-league ballplayer whose once-promising career was curtained by an industrial accident, and his wife Laura, an increasingly fanatical Seventh-Day Adventist. The plot traces the working-out of the family's fate from the beginning of the Eisenhower years through the traumas of Vietnam.
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 645 pages
- English
- 0385240031
- 9780385240031
About David James Duncan
david james duncan (born 1952) is an american novelist and essayist, best known for his two bestselling novels, the river why (1983) and the brothers k (19 Read More about David James Duncan
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