A Perfect Divorce

The well-intentioned parents of a teenage son attempt to lessen the impact of their failed two-career marriage with an intelligent, successful divorce. But their son goes off the tracks, staggering under the weight of his parents' expectations and need for denial. His troubles send shock waves through adult relationships on all sides. The serious implications of divorce on ex-spouses, their new partners, their family members and the absurd college pressures on young people today is the emotional landscape of A Perfect Divorce. Through riveting storytelling, Corman addreses the popular cultural myth, created out of wishful thinking, that children of divorce can be emotionally protected by careful parenting, and that divorce can be relatively risk-free. With the same clear-eyed perspective and insight about contemporary life that he brought to Kramer vs. Kramer, Corman shows us where we have come since Kramer and where we are now, in a novel that is timely and moving.

Literature & Fiction

CORMAN, AVERY

Genre Fiction

St.Martin's Press

Karen and Rob are the well-intentioned parents of a teenage son, Tommy, who believe they can avoid the emotional fallout of their failed two-career marriage. Both are successful individuals who have pursued other personal relationships since their divorce, but have managed to stay connected through their son. When Tommy goes off the tracks, his troubles send shock waves through relationships on all sides. Staggering under the weight of his parents' expectations and need for denial, Tommy risks everything—and Avery Corman turns everyday life into a brilliant page-turning drama. Not since Kramer vs. Kramer, Corman's landmark novel and the basis for the Academy Award-winning motion picture, have truths about us—about marriage, divorce and parenting—been so accurately and emotionally dramatized.

United States

St. Martin's: Griffin

The Boyfriend from Hell

Avery Corman blends the spirit of "Sex and the City" with the terror of "Rosemary's Baby" in this romantic psychological thriller. A highly praised observer of contemporary life and author of Kramer vs. Kramer and A Perfect Divorce, Corman zeroes in on single life, modern stress, and religious faith in The Boyfriend From Hell. Veronica Delaney, single, in her twenties, a freelance writer, while working on an article becomes involved with a dazzling, charismatic man, and she is turned inside out. With his unique storytelling gifts, Avery Corman creates a wonderful, identifiable female character whose circumstance parallels that of so many women... and then it begins to turn. Is this boyfriend a typically uncommitted male or is he hiding something? Is he wonderfully supportive or is he excessively manipulative? Is he dramatically high-maintenance or is he inherently evil? From this insightful novelist, here is a spellbinding tale that is true-to-life, deeply involving, and ultimately, terrifying.

Sometime after leaving her husband and four-year-old boy for a life of her own, Joanna Kramer returns to New York and initiates a bitter custody battle with her ex-husband, Ted, who has found that he cannot live without his son

Kramer Versus Kramer

Contemporary

Random House]

An intact family is almost torn apart when a talented and ambitious young woman is date-raped during her first week at college and vows to bring her rapist to justice. By the author of Kramer vs. Kramer. Reprint.

Prized Possessions

BERKLEY

Oh God!

OUTBACK-WYNDHAM

Kramer vs. Kramer

Signet

1978 - 1st Edition - Oct. - Signet - #E8914 - Paperback - Kramver vs. Kramer - By Avery Corman - Movie Tie In - 8 Pages of Photos - Columbia Pictures - Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep - VG Condition - Water stain on back cover - Collectible

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A Perfect Divorce

A Perfect Divorce

The Boyfriend from Hell

The Boyfriend from Hell

Kramer Versus Kramer

Prized Possessions

Oh God!

Kramer vs. Kramer

Kramer vs. Kramer

Kramer vs. Kramer