Seating Arrangements
Author(s): Maggie Shipstead
A New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize and 2012 L.A. Times First Novel Prize The Van Meters have gathered at their family retreat on the New England island of Waskeke to celebrate the marriage of daughter Daphne to an impeccably appropriate young man. The weekend is full of lobster and champagne, salt air and practiced bonhomie, but long-buried discontent and simmering lust seep through the cracks in the revelry. Winn Van Meter, father-of-the-bride, has spent his life following the rules of the east coast upper crust, but now, just shy of his sixtieth birthday, he must finally confront his failings, his desires, and his own humanity.
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Maggie Shipstead graduated from Harvard in 2005 and earned an M.F.A at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Currently, she is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Seating Arrangements is her first novel. facebook.com/maggieshipsteadauthor
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- : Harper Element
- : 0.298
- : 01 April 2013
- : 197mm X 130mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Maggie Shipstead
- : Paperback
- : 432