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The Dakota Winters : a novel by Tom Barbash; Thomas County Public Library is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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By turns hilarious and poignant, The Dakota Winters is a family drama, a page-turning social novel, and a tale of a critical moment in the history of New York City in the year leading up to John Lennon's assassination. ‘Conjures a gritty, populous, affectionate portrait of 1979 New York City'Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach It's the fall of 1979 when 23-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota Building in New York City. Anton's father, the famous late-night host Buddy Winter is there to greet him, himself recovering from a breakdown. Before long Anton is swept up in an effort to reignite Buddy's stalled career, a mission that takes him from the gritty streets of New York, to the slopes of the Lake Placid Olympics, to the Hollywood Hills, to the blue waters of the Bermuda Triangle, and brings him into close quarters with the likes of Johnny Carson, Ted and Joan Kennedy, and a seagoing John Lennon. But the more Anton finds himself enmeshed in his father's professional and spiritual reinvention, the more he questions his own path, and fissures in the Winter family begin to threate

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Author

Tom Barbash; Thomas County Public Library

Publisher

Scribner UK

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781471128400

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (693 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14