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King Winston and the Knights of the Square Table
Harvey Kim Knobloch
出版
iUniverse
, 2002
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Sagas
Fiction / Humorous / General
ISBN
0595247253
9780595247257
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=l3Gd_Ct4q7oC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Like the movie
American Beauty
, this novel focuses on a dysfunctional family. While providing for his family financially, the father Douglas, is in constant search of new and younger women for sexual gratification. The mother, Vicky, is discontent with her life and betrayed relationship, and in anger has a relationship with Douglas's co-worker in retaliation for his infidelity. She struggles with trying to find her freedom and leaving the security of the relationship. Robert and Barbara are teenagers trying to understand their family, although both of them are having adolescent problems of their own. Only young Winston, in his imaginary kingdom of fantastic creatures such as Sir Rhinoceros and other magical creatures have made any sense of his family.