![]() ![]() There are occasional forays into the lives of the four parents, but it is predominantly concerned with the fallout of divorce for children.Ĭommonwealth is the 10th work of a supremely skilled and esteemed novelist, so it is bewildering to discover that it isn't firing as one might expect. One will die a sad, preventable death another will enter a Swiss monastery another relates the family history to her partner, a famous novelist, who will opportunistically – and ironically, of course – turn it into a novel and a film, displeasing them all. In the novel's opening, Fix and Beverley Keating celebrate the christening of their second daughter, Franny, with family, and an "entire precinct of cops" – Fix is with the LAPD – but Beverley, a siren figure, kisses the deputy DA, Bert Cousins, in a dark upstairs children's bedroom – a vaguely Chekhovian moment, minus the diaper change that brings them together – and the future, for at least 10 people, is suddenly reconfigured.Ĭommonwealth follows the travails of the children into adulthood. ![]() Commonwealth is the fictional equivalent of that "bash", then, with its two American families – six children between them – linked tenuously by betrayals and divorce: an exact mirroring of the author's own family. ![]()
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