Trenton Makes

KOELB,TADZIO

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Author
KOELB,TADZIO
Publish Date
01/01/2019
Book Type
paperback
Publisher Name
PENGUIN
Subtitle
A Novel
Number of Pages
222
Edition
Reprint
ISBN-10
0525436065
ISBN-13
9780525436065
SKU
9780525436065

Description

In 1946, in the hardscrabble industrial city of Trenton, New Jersey, a woman kills her army veteran husband in a domestic brawl—and then assumes his identity. As Abe Kunstler, he secures a factory job, buys a car, and successfully woos a young woman with whom he makes a home. But for Abe, this is not enough: to complete his transformation, he needs a son. Fast-forward to 1971, and the certainties of midcentury triumphalism are a distant, bitter memory, Trenton’s heyday as a factory town is long past, and the family life Abe has so carefully constructed is crumbling under the intolerable pressures of his long ruse. Written in brilliantly stylized prose, Trenton Makes is the indelibly told story of a woman determined to carve out her share of the American Dream.