Other Men's Daughters

Resumen del libro

Until the day of Merriwether's departure from the house a month after his divorce the Merriwether family looked like an ideally tranquil one we read on the first page of Other Men's Daughters. It is the late 1960s, and the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are full of long-haired hippies decked out in colorful garb, but Dr. Robert Merriwether, who teaches at Harvard and has been married for a good long time, hardly takes note. Learned, curious, thoughtful, and a creature of habit, Merriwether is anything but an impulsive man, and yet over the summer, while Sarah, his wife, is away on vacation, he meets a summer student, Cynthia Ryder, and before long the two have fallen into bed and in love. Richard Stern's novel is an elegant and unnerving examination of just how cold and destructive a thing love, the origin of so much story and disorder, can be.

Biografía del autor

Richard Stern (Nueva York, 1928-Tybee Island, 2013) es uno de los grandes escritores estadounidenses del siglo XX y uno de los más secretos. Amigo de Borges, Beckett y Pound y admirado por John Cheever, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Joan Didion o Flannery Ox{0026} x02019;Connor, impartió clases en la Universidad de Chicago durante más de cuarenta años y fue autor de ocho novelas, cuatro colecciones de relatos y tres libros de ensayo. Las hijas de otros hombres se publicó por primera vez en 1973 y está unánimemente considerada como su mejor trabajo.