With “& Sons,” David Gilbert....has set out to write a
big, ambitious book about fathers and sons, Oedipal envy and sibling
rivalry, and the dynamics between art and life, talent and virtue....The novel also contains some
razor-edge glimpses of literary life in Manhattan, and the rarefied
latitudes inhabited by old Upper East Side money. - nytimes.com
PASS.
(Also featured on that website today: the story of a man who lost a $150K job as 'vice president of a student loan company' ((below advertising executive, in my book)) and "reinvented himself" two years and one $188,000 severance package later by accepting a $75K job at Merrill Lynch. Then he quit and had another full-time job offer teaching abroad. PS He took it.)
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