A stunning portrayal of the break-up of a marriage and the collapse of a family; a powerful story of ordinary people in the tradition of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman Steven is fifteen; his family have recently moved to Salt Lake City, where they are living in a small rented house towards the bottom of a hillside dominated by the big silent houses of the wealthy Mormons. Steven is bullied by the Mormon kids and one day he is attacked by a gang who dislocate his shoulder. Steven's father, Billy, a small man with big ...
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A stunning portrayal of the break-up of a marriage and the collapse of a family; a powerful story of ordinary people in the tradition of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman Steven is fifteen; his family have recently moved to Salt Lake City, where they are living in a small rented house towards the bottom of a hillside dominated by the big silent houses of the wealthy Mormons. Steven is bullied by the Mormon kids and one day he is attacked by a gang who dislocate his shoulder. Steven's father, Billy, a small man with big dreams, insists on driving his son to the hospital to save on the cost of an ambulance. Arriving in Casualty, it emerges that Billy has fallen behind with the health insurance payments and the family is uninsured. Billy angrily seeks out the father of the boy who has attacked Steven, who immediately writes out a cheque to cover the medical expenses and much more. Billy blows all the money in a month, forcing his wife Mary to take a job in an old-people's home, a job she detests. Months later, an old man dies in Mary's arms at work, while, on the same day, the children discover that their father has comprehensively failed the accountancy course on which the family has spent three thousand dollars they can ill afford. The next day Mary announces to the children that she is leaving their father for another man, a man who lives in precisely the kind of huge house with a swimming-pool that Billy has always promised his wife and children...Finally Mary has had enough, more than enough; the stage is set for the collapse of a Steven's family...
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Good in good dust jacket. Outline: -John Fulton`s More Than Enough is a powerful debut novel about a month in the life of one American family as they struggle to pull together and break apart in Salt Lake City Utah After a gang of neighborhood boys attack Steven and his sister Jenny and dislocate Steven`s shoulder the Parkers live well on the resulting settlement money. Their dream of success seems fulfilled. But their period of high living soon ends and each family member grasps at what they want most. Jenny the 14 year-old baby of the family longs for normalcy a state she tries to achieve in her Mormon friends` religion and life. A stubborn optimist Steven`s father clings to his hopes of success even as his more practical wife tires of his dreams and longs for stability. For Steven nothing is more important than keeping his teetering family together. -> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Heinemann The date of this copy is 2003 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK.
Add this copy of More Than Enough: a Novel to cart. $27.00, like new condition, Sold by Robinson Street Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Binghamton, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Picador.
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Fine. First edition. Trade paperback original. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife Elena by the author. Also, Signed by the author on the title page. A novel.
