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Model Home

by Eric Puchner
Model Home

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ISBN13: 9780743270496
ISBN10: 0743270495
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The Rooster 2011 Morning News Tournament of Books Nominee

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While Warren Ziller is watching his family's financial security bleed out, his wife, Camille, is making really bad public service movies, and their children are struggling to make a meaningful life of their own, something far, far worse is coming their way. A study in modernity, Model Home provides a template for a life gone impossibly wrong. As distressing as the subject matter is, Puchner's three-dimensional characters make this a great, interesting, worthwhile read. Recommended By Dianah H., Powells.com

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Warren Ziller moved his family to Southern California in search of a charmed life, and to all appearances, he found it: a gated community not far from the beach, amid the affluent splendor of the 1980s. But the Zillers' American dream is about to be rudely interrupted.

Warren has squandered their savings on a bad real estate investment, which he conceals from his wife, Camille, who misreads his secrecy as a sign of an affair. Their children, Dustin, Lyle, and Jonas, have grown as distant as satellites, too busy with their own betrayals and rebellions to notice their parents' distress. When tragedy strikes, the Zillers are forced to move to Warren's abandoned housing development in the desert. In this comically bleak new home, each must reckon with what's led them there and who's to blame — and whether they can summon the forgiveness needed to hold the family together.

With penetrating insights into modern life and an uncanny eye for everyday absurdities, Eric Puchner delivers a wildly funny, heartbreaking, and thoroughly original portrait of an American family.

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"Family love flickers capriciously throughout this fine domestic drama, which runs the gamut from hilarious to harrowing....A wild first novel that amply confirms the promise of Puchner's story collection..." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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"[O]ne of the funniest and truest books published in years....Puchner's tale points out the inherently transitory nature of the family. Children become adults, adults grow apart. But in spite of — or because of — its transitory nature, this love story is even more precious." The Oregonian

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"[A]ll the Zillers come so alive that as a reader, I felt so deeply for them that the book became almost excruciating to read....I'm still trying to recover from reading about the pathos of the Zillers, which thanks to the fine talent of Erich Puchner I will remember for quite a long while." Alan Cheuse, The Chicago Tribune

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"Puchner is an extraordinarily talented writer. He's a master of mood and tone, able to make moments of pure hilarity follow heartbreak with the seamlessness of real life. And every character is perfectly realized....This book deftly captures the '80s, a decade of illusory wealth, tawdry spectacle, and willful innocence — which also makes it the perfect novel for our time." The Boston Globe

Synopsis

The debut of an award-winning writer, Model Home is a bitterly funny, deeply moving novel about a family reckoning with failure, guilt, and love.

About the Author

Eric Puchner is an assistant professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College. He has received a Pushcart Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. His short story collection Music Through the Floor was a finalist for the NY Public Library's Young Lions Award. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, novelist Katharine Noel, and their children.

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ISBN:
9780743270496
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
09/14/2010
Publisher:
Scribner Book Company
Language:
English
Pages:
384
Height:
.85IN
Width:
6.14IN
Thickness:
1.00
LCCN:
2009038051
Number of Units:
1
UPC Code:
4294967295
Author:
Eric Puchner
Author:
Eric Puchner
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
California
Subject:
Family life
Subject:
Literature-Family Life
Subject:
General Fiction

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