Apples and Oranges My Brother and Me, Lost and Found

by Brenner, Marie

• ISBN13: 9780312428808
• ISBN10: 0312428804
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-27
• Publisher: Picador

Summary

Hailed by "The New York Times" as "extraordinary," "Apples and Oranges" asks a universal question: how can two people from the same family turn out so entirely different?

Author Biography

MARIE BRENNER's Vanity Fair exposé of the tobacco industry was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film The Insider. She also wrote Great Dames: What I Learned from Older Women.

Table of Contents

"Grabs the problem of sibling rivalry by the throat . . . exposing the sweetness at the core of an embattled love."--O, The Oprah Magazine

"Deftly traces three generations of a combustible, fascinating family."--The Miami Herald

"In this elegiac memoir, the author, a reporter, applies the same investigative skills that led to her exposé of the tobacco industry and Enron to a more intimate subject: her contentious relationship with her late brother. . . . At once comic and tinged with regret."--The New Yorker

"If Marie Brenner and her brother, Carl, can learn to love each other, there might be hope for our divided America after all. . . . Brenner reminds us that it's more productive to eat apples than to throw them."--Entertainment Weekly

"An acid-laced tale of family love."--USA Today

 

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