{"product_id":"other-mens-daughters-isbn-9781681371511","title":"Other Men's Daughters","description":"“Until the day of Merriwether’s departure from the house—a month after his divorce—the Merriwether family looked like an ideally tranquil one” we read on the first page of \u003ci\u003eOther Men’s Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e. It is the late 1960s, and the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are full of long-haired hippies decked out in colorful garb, but Dr. Robert Merriwether, who teaches at Harvard and has been married for a good long time, hardly takes note. Learned, curious, thoughtful, and a creature of habit, Merriwether is anything but an impulsive man, and yet over the summer, while Sarah, his wife, is away on vacation, he meets a summer student, Cynthia Ryder, and before long the two have fallen into bed and in love. Richard Stern’s novel is an elegant and unnerving examination of just how cold and destructive a thing love, “the origin of so much story and disorder,” can be.“As if Chekhov had written \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . I would contend that in its own felicitous small-scale way, \u003ci\u003eOther Men’s Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e is to . . . the sixties what \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e was to the twenties, \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e to the thirties, and \u003ci\u003eRabbit Is Rich\u003c\/i\u003e to the seventies: a microscope exactly focused on a definitive specimen of what was once the present American moment.” —Philip Roth, from the Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A novel so good it would have been one of the most valid contenders for the Great American Novel of the decade. It may have achieved in a sane, civilized, academic and romantic way what its showier contemporaries miss by a mile.”\u003cbr\u003e —Ann Rosenberg, \u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “It is a pleasure to find a novel written with such intelligence and feeling, a novel that judges none of its people but holds them up to calm and affectionate scrutiny. \u003ci\u003eOther Men’s Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e . . . is ‘relevant’—but its real subject is in the disruptions and exaltation of the human heart.”\u003cbr\u003e —Jonathan Yardley, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Richard Stern’s style is the mark of an exceptional and delicate attention. \u003ci\u003eOther Men’s Daughters \u003c\/i\u003eis...an impressive pleas for the private life as a continuing subject for serious\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003efiction...there is urgency and power in Stern’s treatment of his profound theme: the\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003enecessary end of particular seasons in our lives, the pain and confusion and exhilaration of\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eleaving safe old places when they have become truly uninhabitable.” —Michael Wood, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “This is the best novel about divorce and the anguish of a lost family that I have ever read.” —Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of History of Religions, at the University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A flower-fresh, moon-bright novel...the author being one of those who can convey all of Eros in a snip of dialogue, a few sentences.” \u003ci\u003e—Cosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “No novelist could improve upon Richard Stern’s inventory of what Merriwether has to lose...an attractive book and occasionally and extraordinarily touching one.” \u003ci\u003e—Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “I think \u003ci\u003eOther Men’s Daughters \u003c\/i\u003eis an important book, one of the few that will be read later. It is brilliantly written, a true novel of manners, sharply observant of surfaces, and, finally, profound.” —Herbert Wilner\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Stern’s accomplishment (here, as in all his work) is to locate precisely the comedy and the pains of a particularly contemporary phenomenon without exaggeration, animus, or operatic ideology.... In all, it is as if Chekhov had written \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e.... I would hold that in its own felicitous way, \u003ci\u003eOther Men’s Daughters \u003c\/i\u003eis to the sixties what \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby \u003c\/i\u003ewas to the twenties, \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath \u003c\/i\u003eto the thirties, and \u003ci\u003eRabbit Is Rich \u003c\/i\u003eto the eighties: a microscope exactly focused upon a thinly sliced specimen of what was once the present moment.” —Philip Roth\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “The novel’s world rings true...we respond to the honesty of Stern’s vision.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “For years I have admired the elegant fiction of Richard Stern for its impeccable language, its gracious erudition, and, above all, it’s brilliant wit. In \u003ci\u003eOther Men’s Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e, to me his most moving novel, these qualities serve the cause of mercy.” —Thomas Berger\u003cb\u003eRichard Stern \u003c\/b\u003e(1928–2013) was the author of more than twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, and was best known for \u003ci\u003eOther Men’s Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e. His other works include the novels \u003ci\u003eStitch\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNatural Shocks\u003c\/i\u003e; the short-story collections \u003ci\u003ePackages\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNoble Rot\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAlmonds to Zhoof\u003c\/i\u003e; a collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Books in Fred Hampton’s Apartment\u003c\/i\u003e; and a memoir, \u003ci\u003eA Sistermony\u003c\/i\u003e. He taught literature and creative writing at the University of Chicago from 1955 until he retired in 2001.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePhilip Roth \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of thirty-one books, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWendy Doniger \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and the author of\u003ci\u003e The Hindus: An Alternative History, On Hinduism\u003c\/i\u003e, and, most recently, the\u003cbr\u003e volume on Hinduism in \u003ci\u003eThe Norton Anthology of World Religions\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302778622181,"sku":"NP9781681371511","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681371511.jpg?v=1767734296","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/other-mens-daughters-isbn-9781681371511","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}