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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Upstate
  name:
    name part: Wood, James
    name part: 1965-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  genre: Domestic fiction.
  genre: Fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 214 pages ; 23 cm
  abstract: In the years since his daughter Vanessa moved to America to become a professor of philosophy, Alan Querry has never been to visit. He has been too busy at home in northern England, holding together his business as a successful property developer. His younger daughter, Helen--a music executive in London--hasn't gone, either, and the two sisters, close but competitive, have never quite recovered from their parents' bitter divorce and the early death of their mother. But when Vanessa's new boyfriend sends word that she has fallen into a severe depression and that he's worried for her safety, Alan and Helen fly to New York and take the train to Saratoga Springs. Over the course of six wintry days in upstate New York, the Querry family begins to struggle with the questions that animate this profound and searching novel: Why do some people find living so much harder than others? Is happiness a skill that might be learned or a cruel accident of birth? Is reflection conducive to happiness or an obstacle to it? If, as a favorite philosopher of Helen's puts it, "the only serious enterprise is living," how should we live? Rich in subtle human insight, full of poignant and often funny portraits, and vivid with a sense of place, James Wood's Upstate is a powerful, intense, beautiful novel.--Amazon.com.
  abstract: In the years since his daughter Vanessa moved to America to become a professor of philosophy, Alan Querry has never been to visit. When Vanessa's boyfriend sends word that she has fallen into a severe depression and he's worried for her safety, Alan and daughter Helen fly to New York and take the train to Saratoga Springs. Over the course of six wintry days in upstate New York, the family begins to struggle with questions: Why do some people find living so much harder than others? Is happiness a skill that might be learned or a cruel accident of birth? -- adapted from jacket.
  note: James Wood.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ny
  subject:
    topic: Dysfunctional families
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Self-realization
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Dysfunctional families
  subject:
    topic: Self-realization
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Family Life
  subject:
    topic: British
    geographic: New York (State)
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Depression, Mental
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Dysfunctional families
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Fathers and daughters
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Self-realization
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: New York (State)
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PR6123.O527 U67 2018
  classification: 823/.92
  identifier: 9780374279530
  identifier: 0374279535
  identifier: 9780374718206
  identifier: 2017038336
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170918
    record change date: 20180628143152.0
    record identifier: in00004000334
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng