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Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry

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493 words, approx. 2 pages
Family Matters is the third novel by the critically acclaimed Indian-born author Rohinton Mistry. It was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 2002. The novel is set in the city of Mumbai, where Mistry was born and grew up, and tells the story of...


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The Washington Post
Family Matters
11/25/1997: 934 words, approx. 3 pages
Who's coming to Thanksgiving dinner? It's not just a matter of logistics. The holiday feast poses a basic question for turkey-stuffing Americans: Who's in your family? And more broadly -- what is a family? As we sit down at the table and...
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The Boston Globe
Family matters
08/17/1994: 683 words, approx. 2 pages
He is Boston's king of friendly leveraged buyouts, parlaying a relatively warm manner and a definitely shrewd business sense into a personal fortune. Now Thomas H. Lee is the target of another kind of buyout -- commonly known as divorce -- that isn't...
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The New York Observer
A Novel of Brotherly Betrayal, By a Sexpert on Family Matters
7/17/2005: 1,302 words, approx. 4 pages
Envy, by Kathryn Harrison. Random House, 301 pages, $24.95. “Can it be true that all of Will's patients are consumed by the topic of sex? Getting it. Not getting it. Getting it, but not enough of it. Getting it but not It. Coming, not...
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The New York Observer
A Novel of Brotherly Betrayal, By a Sexpert on Family Matters
7/17/2005: 1,301 words, approx. 4 pages
Envy, by Kathryn Harrison. Random House, 301 pages, $24.95. "Can it be true that all of Will's patients are consumed by the topic of sex? Getting it. Not getting it. Getting it, but not enough of it. Getting it but not It. Coming, not coming,...
 


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Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Brooke Allen
1,193 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review of Family Matters, Allen charts the progress of Mistry's writing over the course of his career and commends him as a master of metaphor.
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Critical Review by Peter Heinegg
1,113 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review, Heinegg judges Family Matters as a novel that combines a grand scope with paying attention to meticulous details.
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Critical Review by Lee Langley
745 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review of Family Matters, Langley praises Mistry as a writer who effectively weaves tragedy and vivid descriptions of everyday routine into his fiction.
 


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Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry

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