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That Old Cape Magic

By Richard Russo

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| Paperback | 9780701184629

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Thirty years ago and full of hope, on their Cape Cod honeymoon, Jack and Joy Griffin drafted the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their future that's now thirty years old and has largely come true. At the time they were living in Los Angeles, where Griffin wrote scripts that were already losing his inContinue

Thirty years ago and full of hope, on their Cape Cod honeymoon, Jack and Joy Griffin drafted the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their future that's now thirty years old and has largely come true. At the time they were living in Los Angeles, where Griffin wrote scripts that were already losing his interest. He left all that behind for a family life and to teach at the sort of New England college his parents had aspired to. Now the two of them are back on the Cape - where Jack also spent childhood vacations which still cast a long shadow - to celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura's best friend. Things look good, even if cracks are beginning to show...Jack's been driving around with his father's ashes in an urn in the boot of his car, though his mother's very much alive and often on his mobile. Laura's boyfriend seems promising - but be careful what you wish for, especially if there's a chance it could come true. A year later, at her wedding, Jack has a second urn in the car, and his life is starting to unravel. Full of every family feeling imaginable, painfully comic and profoundly involving, "That Old Cape Magic" is surprising, uplifting and unlike anything this Pulitzer Prize winner has ever written.

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  • THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC by Richard Russo

    “Only love made such a leap possible. Only love related one thing to all other things, putting all your eggs into a single basket—that dumbest yet most courageous and thrilling of all economic strategies.” Reviewed by Eleanor Bukowsky (AUG 5, 2009) F ... (read full critics)

    mostlyfiction published on Thu, 30 Sep 2010

  • That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo

    At 57 and facing his "middle-aged meltdown", Jack Griffin, the "congenitally unhappy" hero of That Old Cape Magic, is a professor of writing at a New England college and an ex-Hollywood screenwriter, bi-coastal traits he shares with author Richard Ru ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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