FLESH AND BLOOD

Constantine Stasos, der griechische Einwanderer, und Mary, die Tochter aus italienischer Familie, plagen sich in den fünfziger Jahren redlich, sich und ihre drei kleinen Kinder Susan, Bill und Zoe durchzubringen. Der amerikanische Traum erfüllt sich für das Paar erst spät: doch sie spüren, daß sie nur wegen ihres Geldes respektiert werden. Ihren Kindern ist wenig Lebensglück beschieden. So versuchen Mutter Mary und Tante Cassandra, die Familie nach Kräften zusammenzuhalten.

The epic saga of three generations of a Greek American family follows them through periods of ambition, love, violence, and change, focusing on the turbulent lives of the children.

Auteur

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, Specimen Days, By Nightfall, and The Snow Queen, as well as the collection A Wild Swan and Other Tales, and the nonfiction book Land s End: A Walk in Provincetown. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Best American Short Stories. The Hours was a New York Times bestseller, and the winner of both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Raised in Los Angeles, Michael Cunningham lives in New York City, and is a senior lecturer at Yale University.

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From the bestselling author of The Hours and Specimen Days comes a generous, masterfully crafted novel with all the power of a Greek tragedy.

The epic tale of an American family, Flesh and Blood follows three generations of the Stassos clan as it is transformed by ambition, love, and history. Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant, marries Mary Cuccio, an Italian-American girl, and they have three children, each fated to a complex life. Susan is oppressed by her beauty and her father's affections; Billy is brilliant, and gay; Zoe is a wild, heedless visionary. As the years pass, their lives unfold in ways that compel them--and their parents--to meet ever greater challenges.