Flesh and Blood

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Call Number: Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Originally published in the U.S.: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995.
The story of Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant. He marries an Italian girl, they have three children and he becomes a rich construction boss. After which it's downhill all the way: drugs, sex and the generation gap. The parents divorce, a son becomes a homosexual, the daughter has an illegitimate black baby. By the author of A Home at the End of the World.

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Family blood submitted by pkooger on February 28, 2013, 2:24pm The book's description above in Additional Details is, I suppose, an accurate description of Flesh and Blood, but the impression it leaves is all wrong. This is a beautifully written book about generational conflict. Michael Cunningham is an expert at portraying the inner lives of people, and he uses that talent here to show just how different people in one family can be. The characters are so absorbing that I read about 150 pages a day. The book should be considered a modern classic.