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THE BEADS IBD

ITNA PRESS
09 / 2024
9798988282952
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Sinopsis

YOU CANâÇÖT BUY LOVE.In David McConnellâÇÖs The Beads, members of a wealthy New York family begin to unravel after having wasted their incredible fortune over more than a century. The patriarch gets lost in a maze of his own neuroses. The mother luxuriates in a life of idle pleasure. The neglected son, Darius, nurses an obsession with his ultra-normal best friend, Barry. As if that werenâÇÖt enough, a teacher whom the boys share obliviously commits a shocking crime.Years later, Darius has traded responsibility for an escape to Europe, where he gets a much-needed lesson in decency from a kind German aristocrat. Meanwhile, Barry stumbles into a father/son relationship with a philandering lawyer who may actually be his biological father.áOnce shielded from the real world by privilege, McConnellâÇÖs fragile characters tally what they owe others and what they dream theyâÇÖre owed themselves as time passes indifferently for everyone, beat by beat like the telling of a rosary. Set against a backdrop of late ninetiesâÇÖ Manhattan, The Beads boldly pierces the armor of old money and tries to locate love, if it even exists amid the tangled affectations of a great city.

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