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It's a winter evening in Boston and the temperature has drastically dropped as a blizzard approaches the city. On this fateful night, Bernard Doyle plans to meet his two adopted sons, Tip the older, and more serious and Teddy, the affectionate dreamer, at a Harvard auditorium to hear a speech given by Jesse Jackson. Doyle, an Irish Catholic and former Boston mayor, has done his best to keep his two sons interested in politics, from the day he and his now deceased wife became their parents, through their childhoods, and now in their lives as college students. Though the two boys are…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2008RunHarper Perennial · 312 pages · 9780061340642
- Audiobook · English · 2007HarperAudio · 9780061363528
New York Times bestsellerNew York Times reviewedFiction, family life, generalBoston (mass.), fictionFathers and sons, fictionMarried people, fictionAdopted childrenFiction













