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The lives of a family and a doctor are irrevocably changed and intertwined by a possible case of Munchausen by Proxy, a situation that forces a mother to question everything from her past and the doctor's concerns about her role in tearing a distressed family apart. By the author of The Real McCoy. 50,000 first printing.
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Darin Strauss is the author of the international bestseller Chang and Eng and the New York Times Notable Book The Real McCoy. Also a screenwriter, he is currently adapting Chang and Eng with Gary Oldman. The recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing, he teaches writing at New York University.
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Meet the Goldin couple, who are indeed golden. Josh, a fair-haired ad exec, and his beautiful wife, Dori, have a perfect 8-month-old son and even a fabulous sex life. But Arthur Morey's narration hints at something beneath their self-congratulation. When their son becomes unconscious while at the hospital, the couple faces the scrutiny of Dr. Darlene Stokes. Stokes accuses the couple of Munchausen by Proxy and then finds she must cope with hospital politics as well as shadows from her past. Ultimately, the fact that Dori has bled her child into unconsciousness is overlooked by a hospital more concerned with its reputation than with child abuse. The irony is not lost on Morey, whose narration illuminates the extent to which mundane appearances can mask dark motives. S.W. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherDutton Adult
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0525950702
- ISBN 13 9780525950707
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition, First Printing. Signed and dated 5/30/08 by author on title page. The third novel from the author of CHANG AND ENG and THE REAL McCOY is an often satiric page-turner that tracks a Long Island family crisis. Josh Goldin is a happily married TV airtime salesman with an eight-month-old son. When baby Zack is treated twice for mysterious and life-threatening symptoms, the head of a pediatric ICU, Dr. Darlene Stokes, tells Child Protective Services that she thinks Josh's wife, Dori, suffers from Munchausen syndrome, whereby the afflicted injure their children deliberately to draw attention to themselves. The Goldins' ensuing battle to keep Zack provides grist for public debate about issues ranging from parents' rights to race (Dr. Stokes is black, the Goldins Jewish). Strauss takes delight in skewering a world in which everything (news coverage, legal representation, hospital beds) is for sale, sometimes digressively, always amusingly. The stereotypes are intentionally heavy-handed: Josh's perceptions almost always register through race and class-related fear and disgust. But the heart of the story--the unraveling of Josh's life and the steady erosion of his faith that ignorance can be a virtue and happiness a choice--is riveting. 'Darin Strauss has written a novel that is--sentence by sentence, idea for idea--peerlessly brilliant. Here is a supreme, mature novelist at the height of his powers. Take me to the hospital. My jaw has dropped.' {Gary Shteyngart , author of Absurdistan and The Russian Debutante's Handbook.} New, unread copy opened only for signing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. L50/ A3. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 11949
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