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A powerful elegy to the intimacies and idiocies of family, The Promise of Happiness tells the story of an apparently ordinary family on the cusp of an extraordinary moment: the return of the family's prodigal daughter, Juliet. Her release from an upstate New York prison throws the Judds, formerly of London but now scattered, back together.

For her father, Juliet's conviction for a theft she may not have committed had proven the disintegration of a dying society. For her mother, it is a source not only of resentment, but bafflement. And for all of the Judds, it is a moment of both intense joy and confusion.

As Justin Cartwright's novel…
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Форма: роман

Дата написания: 2005

Язык: Английский

Лауреат: 2005 г.Литературная премия газеты «Sunday Times» (Лучшее художественное произведение (Премия Барри Ронга))
2005 г.Готорнденская премия (Лучшее художественное произведение)

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