Imagine King Lear as a comedy . . .
Elegant, amusing, and profoundly nasty tycoon Gloria Garrison, née Goldberg, has a kingdom to bequeath to one of the grandchildren she barely knows. Theyâre all twentysomethings who foolishly believe money isnât everything. Just shy of eighty, Gloria doesnât wish to watch the minutes tick by while the three dither over the issues of their generationâlove, meaning, identity. She has summoned them all from New York for a weekend at her palatial home in Santa Fe. She has a single question to ask them: âWhich one of you most deserves to inherit my business?â Gloria never anticipates the answer will be ânot interestedâ times three. She created a brilliant, booming beauty business, Glory, Inc., that not only does well, but does good. And they say ânoâ? Whatâs so grand about their lives that they would reject such a kingdom?
Daisy Goldberg is not only mad for movies, sheâs part of the film industry: East Coast story editor for one of the biggest studios. Her brother, Matt, the überâsports buff, has a great job in public relations with Major League Baseball. And their cousin Raquel Goldberg, half-Latina, all Catholic, is a Legal Aid lawyer. They may like their work, but do they really like their lives? Would they be so foolish as to hold against their grandmother the pain she inflicted on every member of the family? As far as Gloria is concerned, this isnât about tender feelings. Itâs about millions of dollars; itâs about living a life the ninety-nine percent dream of and the one percent know.
The weekend is full of surprises, not only for Daisy, Matt, and Raquel but also for Gloria. Memories have a way of intruding at the most inopportune times. And is Gloriaâs tough hide as impenetrable as she has always believed? Susan Isaacs is at her formidable best in Goldberg Variations, a novel that is both wickedly witty and a deeply moving tale of family and reconciliation.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- Family Life
- General
- Family Life
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Scribner
Author : Isaacs, Susan
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2012-10-02
Number Of Pages : 336
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 1451605919
ISBN-13 : 9781451605914
Item weight : 1.05 lb
Dimensions : 1.3 in x 6 in x 9.1 in
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