Class struggle and family tensions explode in this novel of life in a Chicago suburb in the 1950s, as a teenager watches his father's psyche crumble in the wake of union problems and marital difficulties.
Publisher Liza Bennington's success with Style, the world's most popular fashion magazine, is threatened by a power struggle with her arch-enemy, Fritz Jacob, and by the group of flatterers and backstabbers who surrround her
While on duty as a young foreign service officer in Indochina in the 1960s, Harry Sanders briefly meets a young German woman who changes the course of his life.
When Sydney left Germany and moved to Paris in 1956, he was happy to escape from his horror-filled boyhood memories of World War II. But Sydney suddenly finds h.
Settling in Georgetown after rejecting his family's life in politics, newspaper photographer Alec witnesses the émigré gatherings at the home of his next-door neighbors and watches the disintegration of his marriage upon his refusal of an assignment inVietnam.
For decades, Dixon Greenwood, whose own fame rests on his one great film, Summer, 1921, has lived the Hollywood life. Now, he believes he’s lost his genius, so he embarks on a kind of personal rescue mission – a three-month stay in Germany. In postwar, post-Wall Berlin, Dix finds the cultural climate turbulent. While fellow artists debate politics and art, he discovers that a nostalgic Prussian costume drama is the most popular program on German television. It’s with mixed feelings that he agrees to direct an episode – a fateful decision that unexpectedly reunites him with an actress who disappeared from the set of Summer, 1921 thirty years before. The Weather in Berlin showcases National Book Award Finalist Ward Just’s unmatched eye for restless Americans abroad. Imbued with the glitter and darkness of both old Hollywood and the new Europe, it is a terrifically atmospheric novel by one of the most astute writers of American fiction (New York Times Book Review).
Sculptor Lee Goodell reflects on his time at a Chicago boys' school, as well as on the sexual assault of a childhood friend, who has no memory of the attack on her. By the author of Exiles in the Garden.
The passing of Amos Rising, town elder and editor of The Dement Intelligencer, leaves the Rising family without a patriarch and the town with a hole in its center. The ambitions and talents of the Risings, the changing face of the town and the life of the spirited, intelligent, and attractive Dana Rising fill the pages of this extraordinary novel. Ward Just's A Family Trust is about the public face and private souls of America's Heartland in the same way his other novels are about Germany, Vietnam, or Washington D.C.
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