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Lily Kings subtiler und herzzerreißender Roman über die tragisch unverrückbare Liebe einer Tochter zu ihrem manipulativen Vater zeigt, wie unentrinnbar Bindungen in der Familie sind.

Daley Amory erlebt als Elfjährige die Trennung ihrer Eltern und wie vor allem der charismatische, aber weltanschaulich in den 50er Jahren stecken gebliebene und selbstzerstörerische Vater seine alte Familie schnell durch eine neue ersetzt. Daley gelingt es, ein eigenes Leben, eine Liebesbeziehung aufzubauen, und bleibt doch auf eine gefährliche Weise auf ihren Vater fixiert, auf die Vorstellung, ihm helfen zu müssen. Mühsam muss sie sich aus dieser Verstrickung befreien.

Lily Kings dritter Roman mit seinen faszinierenden und aufwühlenden Charakteren zeigt das ganze psychologische und sprachliche Können der Autorin, die es den Lesern unmöglich macht, sich dem Sog dieser Geschichte zu entziehen.

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Rendered a pawn in her parents´ manipulative divorce, Daley embarks on an adolescence fraught by her mother´s liberal social commitments and her conservative father´s alcoholism, from which she flees in adulthood only to be drawn back when her father hits bottom.

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Winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction and a New York Times Editors´ Choice, Lily King´s masterful third novel received glowing critical praise upon its initial publication and is poised to make an even bigger splash in paperback.

Gardiner Amory is a New England WASP who´s beginning to feel the cracks in his empire. Nixon is being impeached, his wife is leaving him, and his worldview is rapidly becoming outdated. His daughter, Daley, has spent the first eleven years of her life negotiating her parents´ conflicting worlds: the liberal, socially committed realm of her mother and the conservative, decadent, liquor-soaked life of her father. But when they divorce, and Gardiner´s basest impulses are unleashed, the chasm quickly widens and Daley is stretched thinly across it.

As she reaches adulthood, Daley rejects the narrow world that nourished her father´s fears and prejudices, and embarks on her own life—until he hits rock bottom. Lured home by the dream of getting her father sober, Daley risks everything she´s found beyond him, including her new love, Jonathan, in an attempt to repair a trust broken years ago.

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Lily King´s first novel, The Pleasing Hour won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and was a New York Times Notable Book and an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her second book, The English Teacher , was a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, and the winner of the Maine Fiction Award.

Lily is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and a Whiting Award. Her short fiction has appeared in literary magazines including Ploughshares and Glimmer Train , as well as in several anthologies. She lives with her family in Maine.

Visit Lily´s website at lilykingbooks.com

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