FATHER OF THE RAIN

Grove, New York, 2010, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 978-0-8021-4534-5.  Trade soft cover, 354 pages followed by Reading Group Guide.  Very good; light curling to covers, ding to lower rear corner  and edge resulting in last few pages with very light creases; binding sound with no reading creases.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages.  ‘Gardiner Amory is a New England WASP who’s beginning to feel the cracks in his empire.  His daughter, Daley, has spent the first eleven years of her life negotiating her parents’ conflicting worlds:  the liberal, socially committed realm of her mother and the conservative, decadent, liquor-soaked life of her father.  But when they divorce, and Gardiner’s basest impulses are unleashed, the chasm quickly widens and Daley is stretched thinly across it.  As she reaches adulthood, Daley rejects the narrow world that nourished her father’s prejudices and embarks on her own separate life – until he hits bottom.  Seduced home by the dream of getting her father sober, Daley risks everything she’s found beyond him, including her new love, Jonathan, in an attempt to repair a trust broken years ago.’ (from rear wrap)