A Dual Inheritance: A Novel,Used

Product Description For readers of Rules of Civility and The Marriage Plot, Joanna Hershons A Dual Inheritance is an engrossing novel of passion, friendship, betrayal, and classand their reverberations across generations. Autumn 1962: Ed Cantowitz and Hugh Shipley meet in their final year at Harvard. Ed is far removed from Hughs privileged upbringing as a Boston Brahmin, yet his drive and ambition outpace Hughs ambivalence about his own life. These two young men form an unlikely friendship, bolstered by a fierce shared desire to transcend their circumstances. But in just a few short years, not only do their paths divergeone rising on Wall Street, the other becoming a kind of global humanitarianbut their friendship ends abruptly, with only one of them understanding why. Can a friendship define your view of the world? Spanning from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the presentday stock market collapse, with locations as diverse as Dar es Salaam, Boston, Shenzhen, and Fishers Island, ADual Inheritance asks this question, as it follows not only these two men, but the complicated women in their vastly different lives. And as Ed and Hugh grow farther and farther apart, they remain uniquelyeven surprisinglyconnected. Praise for ADual Inheritance A big, captivating sweep of a romance . . . a searching exploration of class and destiny in latetwentiethcentury America.Jennifer Egan The best book about male friendship written this young century.Details [A] warm, smart, enjoyably complex novel . . . Both Hugh and Ed are lonely searchers . . . and [Hershons] skill in rendering each of them as flawed individuals is what makes the novel so readable and so rich. . . . A Dual Inheritance is an oldfashioned social novel that feels fresh because of its deft, cleareyed approach to stillunspoken rules about ethnicity, money and identity.San Francisco Chronicle An absorbing, fullyrealized novel . . . [Hershon] renders the books many locales with a nuanced appreciation for the way environment emerges out of the confluence of physical detail and social experience. . . . A Dual Inheritance never lets its readers forget they are reading a wellcrafted novel, and as a wellcrafted novel, it fully satisfies.The Boston GlobeThis marvelous novel is a mix of heartache and history. . . . Think of Anne Tyler and Tom Wolfe, both.Victor LaValle, author of The Devil in Silver[An] engrossing saga.Vogue Hershon artfully guides us through the lives of Ed and Hugh, college buddies who meet at Harvard in the 60s, shifting between their perspectives through adulthood to detail their lingering impact on one anothers lives in such a way that itll make you take a second look at all of your relationships.GQ Let this story of two Harvard mens unexpected friendship and its sudden end transport you through time (beginning on Harvards campus in 1962) and place.The Huffington Post A richly composed . . . portrait of familial gravity and the wobbly orbits that bring us together again and again.Kirkus Reviews This thoughtprovoking generational tale is a heartfelt and beautiful story of an unlikely friendship that fades at times, but never seems to go away.Long Island PressFrom the Hardcover edition. Review A Dual Inheritance is a big, captivating, multigenerational sweep of a romance, ranging from Africa to China to New Englands blueblooded enclaves. With deftness and swagger, Joanna Hershon spins the intertwining of two Harvard mens lives into a searching exploration of class and destiny in latetwentiethcentury America.Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of A Visit from the Goon SquadThe best book about male friendship written this young century.Details [A] warm, smart, enjoyably complex novel . . . Both Hugh and Ed are lonely searchers . . . and [Hershons] skill in rendering each of them as flawed individuals is what makes the novel so readable and so rich. . . . A Dual Inheri