Coverart for item
The Resource Sons and daughters of ease and plenty, Ramona Ausubel

Sons and daughters of ease and plenty, Ramona Ausubel

Label
Sons and daughters of ease and plenty
Title
Sons and daughters of ease and plenty
Statement of responsibility
Ramona Ausubel
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"From the award-winning author of No One Is Here Except All of Us, an imaginative novel about a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and '70s that suddenly loses its fortune--and its bearings. Labor Day, 1976, Martha's Vineyard. Summering at the family beach house along this moneyed coast of New England, Fern and Edgar--married with three children--are happily preparing for a family birthday celebration when they learn that the unimaginable has occurred: There is no more money. More specifically, there's no more money in the estate of Fern's recently deceased parents, which, as the sole source of Fern and Edgar's income, had allowed them to live this beautiful, comfortable life despite their professed anti-money ideals. Quickly, the once-charmed family unravels. In distress and confusion, Fern and Edgar are each tempted away on separate adventures: she on a road trip with a stranger, he on an ill-advised sailing voyage with another woman. The three children are left for days with no guardian whatsoever, in an improvised Neverland helmed by the tender, witty, and resourceful Cricket, age nine. Brimming with humanity and wisdom, humor and bite, and imbued with both the whimsical and the profound, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty is a story of American wealth, class, family, and mobility, approached by award-winner Ramona Ausubel with a breadth of imagination and understanding that is fresh, surprising, and exciting"--
Storyline
Tone
Writing style
Character
Assigning source
Provided by publisher
http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
10492480
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Ausubel, Ramona
Dewey number
813/.6
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3601.U868
LC item number
S66 2016
Literary form
fiction
http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
True
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Upper class families
  • Children of the rich
  • Social status
Target audience
adult
Label
Sons and daughters of ease and plenty, Ramona Ausubel
Instantiates
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
308 pages
Isbn
9781594634888
Lccn
2016002763
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • 925397947
  • (OCoLC)925397947
Label
Sons and daughters of ease and plenty, Ramona Ausubel
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
308 pages
Isbn
9781594634888
Lccn
2016002763
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • 925397947
  • (OCoLC)925397947

Library Locations

    • Williamsburg LibraryBorrow it
      515 Scotland Street, Williamsburg, VA, 23185, US
      37.377573 -76.770995