Brothers K

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  • Oregon Book Award Nominee for Fiction (Finalist) (1993)
  • Casey Award Nominee (1992)
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Brothers K

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ISBN: 9780553378498
Date of Publication: 1996-06-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Classics
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Duncan took almost 10 years to follow up the publication of his much-praised first novel, The River Why, but this massive second effort is well worth the wait. It is a stunning work: a complex tapestry of family tensions, baseball, politics and religion, by turns hilariously funny and agonizingly sad. Highly inventive formally, the novel is mainly narrated by Kincaid Chance, the youngest son in a family of four boys and identical twin girls, the children of Hugh Chance, a discouraged minor-league ballplayer whose once-promising career was curtained by an industrial accident, and his wife Laura, an increasingly fanatical Seventh-Day Adventist. The plot traces the working-out of the family's fate from the beginning of the Eisenhower years through the traumas of Vietnam.
 

  • Oregon Book Award Nominee for Fiction (Finalist) (1993)
  • Casey Award Nominee (1992)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.