The National Book Award-winning novel by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz
called "the real F. Scott Fitzgerald"
Joe Chapin led a storybook life. A successful small-town lawyer with a
beautiful wife, two over-achieving children, and aspirations to be
president, he seemed to have it all. But as his daughter looks back on
his life, a different man emerges: one in conflict with his ambitious
and shrewish wife, terrified that the misdeeds of his children will dash
his political dreams, and in love with a model half his age. With black
wit and penetrating insight, Ten North Frederick stands with Richard
Yates' Revolutionary Road, Evan S. Connell's Mr. Bridge and Mrs.
Bridge, the stories of John Cheever, and Mad Men as a brilliant
portrait of the personal and political hypocrisy of mid-century America.
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