A Family Affair
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the quietly turbulent backdrop of early twentieth-century domestic life, A Family Affair by M. I. Legoe draws readers into a world of social hierarchy, unspoken tensions, and the complex bonds that hold — and fracture — a family. The silhouetted figures on the cover speak volumes: a patriarch elevated above the rest, a young man standing apart, and two women facing them across an invisible divide, capturing the novel's central drama of power, gender, and generational conflict within the intimate theatre of family life. Legoe writes with a measured, observational precision reminiscent of early twentieth-century literary fiction, allowing character and social dynamic to emerge through subtle interaction rather than overt dramatic action. The novel sits comfortably within a tradition of domestic fiction that illuminates how the grandest human struggles — ambition, loyalty, identity, and belonging — are so often played out not on public stages, but behind closed doors. Readers drawn to character-driven narratives steeped in period atmosphere will find themselves asking: when family becomes the arena, who truly holds the power?
Author: M. I. Legoe
Format: Paperback
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the quietly turbulent backdrop of early twentieth-century domestic life, A Family Affair by M. I. Legoe draws readers into a world of social hierarchy, unspoken tensions, and the complex bonds that hold — and fracture — a family. The silhouetted figures on the cover speak volumes: a patriarch elevated above the rest, a young man standing apart, and two women facing them across an invisible divide, capturing the novel's central drama of power, gender, and generational conflict within the intimate theatre of family life. Legoe writes with a measured, observational precision reminiscent of early twentieth-century literary fiction, allowing character and social dynamic to emerge through subtle interaction rather than overt dramatic action. The novel sits comfortably within a tradition of domestic fiction that illuminates how the grandest human struggles — ambition, loyalty, identity, and belonging — are so often played out not on public stages, but behind closed doors. Readers drawn to character-driven narratives steeped in period atmosphere will find themselves asking: when family becomes the arena, who truly holds the power?