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Ordinary People

Judith Guest

  • 255 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1976
  • 33 editions
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1 About this book

Calvin is a determined, successful provider and Beth an organized, efficient wife. They had two sons, Conrad and Buck, but now they have one. This novel inspired Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning film of the same name starring Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore.

  • Psychological fiction
  • Psychiatric hospitals
  • Psychiatrists
  • Domestic fiction
  • Teenage boys
  • Death
  • Suicide
  • Family problems

2 About Judith Guest

Born 1936

Judith Guest (born March 29, 1936) is an American novelist and screenwriter. She was born in Detroit, Michigan and is the great-niece of Poet Laureate Edgar Guest (1881–1959). She is a recipient of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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