A Friend of the Family
Pete Dizinoff, a skilled and successful New Jersey internist, has a loving and devoted wife, a network of close friends, an impressive house, and, most of all, a son, Alec, now nineteen, on whom he has pinned all his hopes. But Pete hadn’t expected his best friend’s troubled daughter to set her...
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Pete Dizinoff, a skilled and successful New Jersey internist, has a loving and devoted wife, a network of close friends, an impressive house, and, most of all, a son, Alec, now nineteen, on whom he has pinned all his hopes. But Pete hadn’t expected his best friend’s troubled daughter to set her sights on his boy. When Alec falls under her spell, Pete sets out to derail the romance, never foreseeing the devastating consequences. In a riveting story of suburban tragedy, Lauren Grodstein charts a father’s fall from grace as he struggles to save his family, his reputation, and himself.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781616200176 (1616200170)
Publish date: November 9th 2010
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Inhalt: Peter Dizinoff ist Arzt und lebt zusammen mit seiner Frau Elaine in Round Hill einem kleinen Vorort in New Jersey. Bis auf bisher kleinere Probleme mit seinem Sohn Alec läuft in seinem Lebenalles so, wie es sein sollte. Sein bester Freund Joe jedoch, der aufrgrund von Empfehlungen Peters ku...