![]() Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.See photos for additional content. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. ![]() Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. Judith Guest, a forty-one-year-old suburban Minneapolis housewife-turned-novelist, submitted her unsolicited manuscript for Ordinary People to Viking Press, and after waiting more than a year. ORDINARY PEOPLE - Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. From this simple scenario Patrick White unfurls a monumental exploration of the tides of love and hate, comedy and tragedy, impotence and longing that fester within family relationships. ![]() ![]() THE EYE OF THE STORM - Elizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itself to those around her. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Cloud(with Rebecca Hill), and Errands.She lives with her family in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Harrisville, Michigan. ![]() Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. Judith Guest won the Janet Heidegger Kafka Prize for her first novel, Ordinary People, which was made into the Academy Award-winning 1980 film of the same name.Her other novels are Second Heaven, Killing Time in St. ![]()
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