At paradise gate
a novel
Book - 1981
While 70-year-old Ike Robison is dying in his bedroom upstairs, his wife defends the citadel of their marriage against an ill-considered, albeit loving, invasion by their three middle-aged daughters and their granddaughter. As the five women interact, issues of love and marriage, loyalty and trust, and solitude and loneliness surface in a portrait of intergenerational strife and family survival.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon and Schuster,
c1981.
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