Judith Guest

North of Petoskey

by Keith Taylor

posted 6/1/2004

Back in 1980 we all knew about Judith Guest. Her first novel, Ordinary People, a story about a dysfunctional midwestern upper-middle-class family originally published in 1976, was turned into Robert Redford's directorial debut, which won the Oscar for Best Picture. She has written a handful of other books, but none that tried to take advantage of the theme or

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