Family Planning

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(Die weiße Linie auf dem Cover ist kein Knick, sondern Text.:)

BITTE DERZEIT NICHT ANFORDERN. Ich komme zurzeit nicht an dieses Buch heran. Wenn du mir eine Nachricht hinterlässt, gebe ich gern Bescheid, sobald es wieder verfügbar ist.

Here we have the parents and three of the four children of a crazy family all trying to hide from each other because none of them wants to take responsibility for looking after the fourth and oldest child, the schizophrenic Raymond. Yet, these people are incapable of breaking off contact with each other. The truth is they're fascinated with each other and all drawn, as if by a centrifugal force, toward the embattled relationship of Mother and Father. Hence the constant letters and sporadic, but always explosive meetings. Then into the family come two forces for change, the American husband of the only daughter, the comically Italian girlfriend of one of the younger twins. Their attempts to get their partners out of this suffocating family only serve to reveal the underlying dynamic at work, and lead, in the end, to catastrophe.

'Incisive and insightful Parks has an unflinching eye that penetrates like an x-ray'
The New York Times

'Funny, compassionate, frightening and precisely observant'
Times Literary Supplement

'Resolutely unsentimental and very entertaining'
The New Yorker

Tim parks, dysfunctional family, relationships, living with schizophrenics