To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle.
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Ordinary People
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by Judith Guest
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These are the Jarretts: Calvin is a determined, successful, dutiful provider. Beth is an organized, efficient wife, still beautiful after 20 years of marriage. They had two sons, Conrad and Buck. Now they have one. They are ordinary people. And they are coming apart.
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psychiatric hospitals, attorneys, psychiatrists, identity crisis, survivor's guilt, midlife crisis, domestic fiction, psychological fiction, death fiction, Mentally ill teenagers, Teenage boys, Death, Suicide, Family problems, Fiction, Teenagers, Literature, Brothers, Adolescent, Family life, Large type books, Fiction, general, Brothers, fiction, Psychiatric hospitals, Suicidal behavior, Psychological aspects, Siblings, Mentally Ill Persons, Psychiatric Hospitals, Attempted Suicide, Attitude to Death, Sibling Relations, Adolescents, Romans, nouvelles, Frères, Mort, Hôpitaux psychiatriques, Comportement suicidaire, Aspect psychologique, Frères et sœurs, Siblings (people), FICTION, Literary, General, Parent-Child RelationsPeople
Calvin Jarret, Conrad Keith Jarrett, Beth Jarret, Tyrone Berger, Jeannine Pratt, Joe Lazenby, Kevin Stillman, Carole Lazenby, Ray Hanley, Nancy Hanley, Cherry, Howard, Ellen, Karen Susan Aldrich, Mr. Faughnan, Coach Salan, Jordan Jarrett, Leo Crawford, Arnold BaconPlaces
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1988-05, Ballantine Books
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1982, Penguin Books
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1977 07, Ballantine Books
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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.
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