Monkeys by Susan Minot [FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION] 1986 • E.P. Dutton

Monkeys by Susan Minot

FIRST EDITION [1986] E.P. DUTTON / SEYMOUR LAWRENCE

Hardcover w/ dust jacket both in excellent condition.  Like new w/ minor trace wear and some inevitable tanning to pages.  Dust jacket now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.

In this luminous story of family life--the first novel by Susan Minot, author of the highly acclaimed Evening--the seven Vincent children follow their Catholic mother to Mass and spend Thanksgiving with their father's aging parents who come from a world of New England privilege. As they grow older, they meet with the perplexing lives of adults. Susan Minot writes with delicacy and a tremendous gift for the details that decorate domestic life, and when tragedy strikes she beautifully mines the children's tenderness for each other, and their aching guardianship of what they have.