The Family Fang
Books | Fiction / Humorous / Black Humor
3.7
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Kevin Wilson
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME, PEOPLE, SALON, AND ESQUIRE“The Family Fang is a comedy, a tragedy, and a tour-de-force examination of what it means to make art and survive your family….The best single word description would be brilliant.” —Ann Patchett, author of Bel CantoA funny, poignant, laugh-and-cry-out-loud (sometimes at the same time) novel about the art of surviving a masterpiece of dysfunction. Meet The Family Fang, an unforgettable collection of demanding, brilliant, and absolutely endearing oddballs whose lives are risky and mischievous performance art. Basis for the major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Jason Bateman and Christopher Walken.Annie and Buster Fang have spent most of their adult lives trying to distance themselves from their famous artist parents, Caleb and Camille. But when a bad economy and a few bad personal decisions converge, the two siblings have nowhere to turn but their family home. Reunited under one roof for the first time in more than a decade and surrounded by the souvenirs of their unusual upbringing, Buster and Annie are forced to confront not only their creatively ambitious parents, but the chaos and confusion of their childhood. “It’s The Royal Tenenbaums meets Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I’d call The Family Fang a guilty pleasure, but it’s too damn smart….A total blast.” —Hannah Pittard, author of The Fates Will Find Their Way
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Author
Kevin Wilson
Pages
336
Publisher
Harper Collins
Published Date
2011-08-09
ISBN
0062092510 9780062092519
Ratings
Google: 3
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"This book changed the way I view art, and I have a degree in it! It’s so wonderfully written that it consumes you till the very end. It really changed the way I think about things in the best way possible. I recommend it to every friend and family member and have even done a project on it. One of my must reads for sure!"
"I was enticed by the cover of The Family Fang. Though at times dark, the character development, the mystery and the deeper, underlying and universal themes of growing up, of family, kept me going until the last page."
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Courtney Butler
"Different from anything I’ve read before."
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