num_pages: 352
description: Robert Prentice is 18. His mother, Alice Prentice, is 53. Both are damaged souls: Robert, by war; Alice, by thwarted dreams of prosperity. In two deeply humanizing portraits, the great American writer Richard Yates crafts a novel of postwar America, at once at odds with its own sense of identity and mercilessly prohibitive to its like-minded citizens.
language: English
title: A Special Providence
titlecomplete: A Special Providence
genres: American, Americana, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, War, The United States Of America, Fiction
ratings_count: 1249
publisher: Picador