num_pages: 245
description: These are the Jarretts: Calvin is a determined, successful, dutiful provider. Beth is an organized, efficient wife, still beautiful after 20 years of marriage. They had two sons, Conrad and Buck. Now they have one. They are ordinary people. And they are coming apart.(back cover)
language: English
title: Ordinary People
titlecomplete: Ordinary People
genres: Literature, Young Adult, Classics, Psychology, School, Novels, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary, Family
ratings_count: 21176
places: Lake Forest, Illinois
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
publisher: Ballantine Books