The Privileges: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)
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ISBN: 0812980794 / Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks, October 2010
Becoming wealthier and more socially connected throughout the course of their marriage, Adam and Cynthia Morey also find themselves increasingly subject to the temptations of excess and risky behavior while their growing children struggle with their own privilege-based challenges.
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Smart and socially gifted, Adam and Cynthia Morey are perfect for each other. With Adam’s rising career in the world of private equity, a beautiful home in Manhattan, gorgeous children, and plenty of money, they are, by any reasonable standard, successful. But for the Moreys, their future of boundless privilege is not arriving fast enough. As Cynthia begins to drift, Adam is confronted with a choice that will test how much he is willing to risk to ensure his family’s happiness and to recapture the sense that the only acceptable life is one of infinite possibility. The Privileges is an odyssey of a couple touched by fortune, changed by time, and guided above all else by their epic love for each other.
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