Family Pictures by Sue Miller [FIRST EDITION / 1990]

Family Pictures by Sue Miller

FIRST EDITION [1990] HARPER & ROW

2nd printing.   Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Matte dust jacket is in very good condition; light soiling to edges and a spot of sticker ghosting on front.   Otherwise, strong and in tact. 

Book itself looks and reads like new. 

Spanning forty years, Family Pictures follows the conflict between husband and wife, over a beautiful autistic child. Randall is both angel and demon. His father, David, a coolly rational psychiatrist, wants him placed in an institution; his mother, Lainey, insists on keeping him at home. Yet it is not just David and Lainey who are struggling to come to terms with a difficult and unpredictable child; there are five other children in the family, each of them coping with the dramas and rifts surrounding them, each of them affected by Randall.