The Coast of Akron

The Coast of Akron

by Adrienne Miller (Author)

Synopsis

This dazzlingly ambitious novel introduces us to the unforgettable Haven family of Akron, Ohio. This is not your typical Midwestern family and Lowell Haven is a most unusual patriarch. He's a seducer, a fake aristocrat and a liar. Jenny, his former wife, was a brilliant artist but is today a broken woman with a secret. In the thirty years since Jenny and Lowell met, Lowell has become a world-famous artist. But five years ago, Lowell mysteriously stopped painting and the world wants to know why he has abandoned his art. The answer lies with Merit, Lowell and Jenny's daughter, who is running as fast as she can from her family. Fergus, Lowell's boyfriend, Jenny's ex-best friend and drama queen extraordinaire, dreams of luring Merit home: the enormous faux-Tudor mansion where he lives with Lowell. Stretching from mid-seventies London to the present-day Midwest, The Coast of Akron is the incisively funny and deeply heartbreaking story about the all-too-human desire to own what is unownable. Praise for The Coast of Akron - 'This book has some real muscle to it. Miller goes to the core of a wonderfully eclectic American family-intelligent, audacious and packing a serious wallop, The Coast of Akron will be around for a long, long time.' - Colum McCann, bestselling author of Dancer . ' The Coast of Akron is a novel of many delights: it's audacious and provocative, it's arousing - and it's hilarious.' - Ken Kalfus, author of The Commissariat of Enlightenment .

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: Airport / Export ed
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 04 Aug 2005

ISBN 10: 009179644X
ISBN 13: 9780091796440
Book Overview: Adrienne Miller is one of the wittiest and most humane writers we have' Dave Eggers

Media Reviews
'Adrienne Miller is one of the wittiest and most humane writers we have' Dave Eggers 'This book has some real muscle to it. Miller goes to the core of a wonderfully eclectic American family...intelligent, audacious and packing a serious wallop, The Coast of Akron will be around for a long, long time.' Colum McCann, bestselling author of Dancer 'The Coast of Akron is a novel of many delights: it's audacious and provocative, it's arousing... and it's hilarious.' Ken Kalfus, author of The Commissariat of Enlightenment
Author Bio
Adrienne Miller has been the Literary Editor at Esquire in the US since 1997. She has published and edited some of the most illustrious American writers during her time there, including Tim O'Brien, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers and Arthur Miller. This is her first novel.