Richard Russo. (2009). That Old Cape Magic: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Richard Russo. 2009. That Old Cape Magic: A Novel. Books on Tape.

Richard Russo, That Old Cape Magic: A Novel. Books on Tape, 2009.

Richard Russo. That Old Cape Magic: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2009.

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Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father’s ashes in the trunk, but his mother is still very much alive, and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura’s best friend. For Griffin this is akin to driving into the past, since he took his childhood summer vacations there, his parents’ respite from the hated Midwest, and the Cape is where he and Joy honeymooned.
    
But by the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance. And when, a year later, a far more important wedding takes place, their beloved Laura’s, Griffin’s chauffeuring two urns of ashes as he contends once more with Joy and her large, unruly family, and both he and she have brought dates along. How in the world could this have happened?

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   • source: Glenn C. Altschuler, The Boston Globe
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     "Suffused with Russo's signature comic sensibility, and with insights, by turns tender and tough, about human frailty, forbearance, fortitude, and fervor."

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   • source: Roxanna Robinson, The New York Times Book Review
   • content: "Family, family, family is the subject of That Old Cape Magic [with] a complicated skein of plotlines, deep connection to place, and affection for the large cast of characters who blunder and struggle through his pages."
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   • source: Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune
   • content: "A touching portrait of smart people spinning their wheels."
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   • source: Ron Charles, The Washington Post
   • content: "Utterly charming. If you always cry at weddings, you'll cry at this--and laugh, too...Russo has written a novel for people who are terrified of becoming their parents, which is to say for everybody [and it] seems especially intimate, a dyspeptic romantic comedy from a Pulitzer Prize winner who catches the bittersweet humor of our common neuroses...It's a marvelous portrayal of the strands of affection and irritation that run through a family, entangling in-laws and children's crushes and even old friends."
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   • source: Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today
   • content: "A comic yet thoughtful take on marriage...But amid the humor, it raises questions about the complications we inherit and the ones we build for ourselves."
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   • source: Betsy Willeford, The Miami Herald
   • content: "When we finish reading That Old Cape Magic, we know we'll start rereading it soon. And that the characters will come to mind at the most unpredictable times. We will stay on speaking terms with them more than we do with some of our real-life cousins."
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   • source: Rosemary Herbert, Bangor Daily News
   • content: "A recipe for laying ghosts to rest [and] a tale about love requited and unrequited. Finally, it is a big-hearted book about real, complex relationships that are an utterly fascinating mix of the two."
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   • source: Andrew Abrahams, People
   • content: "His most intimate yet: an astute portrait of a 30-year marriage, in all its promise and pain...His honest, heartfelt storytelling--like a cooling breeze off a certain New England shoreline--has never felt fresher."
9. • premium: False
   • source: Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist
   • content: "Wryly funny...An impressively expansive analysis of familial dynamics between not only spouses but also in-laws, parents and children...It's Russo all the same, and his many fans are sure to savor the journey."
10. • premium: False
    • source: Pam Houston, O, The Oprah Magazine
    • content: "In one of America's most mythic landscapes, Russo details one man's shaky first steps out of his past and into self-knowledge with good humor, generosity, and an open heart."
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    • content: Russo's middle-aged protagonist, Griffin, confronts his parents' failed marriage, his own troubled marriage, and his unattained ambitions. He never again achieves the joy inherent in his early childhood recollections of summers on Cape Cod. Recounting his parents' academic lives, fraught with intellectual snobbery and combative bickering, Griffin, a screenwriter turned English professor, never ceases to be baffled by their pretentious superiority. Arthur Morey grasps Russo's moments of cynical despair as well as the story's hilarity. His calculated narration develops distinct characters through artful and well-defined emotional pathos. His approach deftly captures Russo's depiction of life's ironies and comedy. A.W. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
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      June 29, 2009
      Crafting a dense, flashback-filled narrative that stutters across two summer outings to New England (and as many weddings), Russo (Empire Falls
      ) convincingly depicts a life coming apart at the seams, but the effort falls short of the literary magic that earned him a Pulitzer. A professor in his 50s who aches to go back to screenwriting, Jack Griffin struggles to divest himself of his parents. Lugging around, first, his father's, then both his parents' urns in the trunk of his convertible, he hopes to find an appropriate spot to scatter their ashes while juggling family commitments—his daughter's wedding, a separation from his wife. Indeed, his parents—especially his mother, who calls her son incessantly before he starts hearing her from beyond the grave—occupy the narrative like capricious ghosts, and Griffin inherits “the worst attributes of both.” Though Russo can write gorgeous sentences and some situations are amazingly rendered—Griffin wading into the surf to try to scatter his father's ashes, his wheelchair-bound father-in-law plummeting off a ramp and into a yew—the navel-gazing interior monologues that constitute much of the novel lack the punch of Russo's earlier work.

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