Constance
Subtitle: a novel
By: Patrick McGrath
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781608199433
Subjects: Fathers and daughters; Family secrets; Fiction; Dysfunctional families
Description: "The cool, beautiful Constance Schuyler lives alone in Manhattan in the early 1960s. At a literary party, she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior. Sidney is a single father with a poor marital record, and he pursues Constance with relentless determination. Eventually she surrenders, accepts his marriage proposal, and moves, with some dread, into his dark, book-filled apartment. She can't settle in. She's tortured by memories of the bitterly unhappy childhood she spent with her father in a dilapidated house upstate. When she learns devastating new information about that past, Constance's fragile psyche suffers a profound shock. Her marriage, already tottering, threatens to collapse completely"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.