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Available on Nov 03, 2026 | 304 Pages
One of the great bestsellers of our time, now in a 50th-anniversary edition featuring a new foreword by psychoanalyst and New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist Amy Bloom
A Penguin Classic
When it was first published, Ordinary People sold more than a million copies and inspired an Oscar-winning movie adaptation by Robert Redford, starring Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore. It tells the story of the Jarretts, a typical American family. Calvin is a determined, successful provider and Beth an organized, efficient wife. They had two sons, Conrad and Buck, but now they have only one. In the aftermath of their loss, the Jarretts find that what lies beneath the veneer of a perfectly ordinary family are people broken by tragedy, grown distant and unfamiliar to one another. Fifty years later, Ordinary People remains an extraordinary novel about a family divided by pain yet bound by their determination to heal.
A Penguin Classic
When it was first published, Ordinary People sold more than a million copies and inspired an Oscar-winning movie adaptation by Robert Redford, starring Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore. It tells the story of the Jarretts, a typical American family. Calvin is a determined, successful provider and Beth an organized, efficient wife. They had two sons, Conrad and Buck, but now they have only one. In the aftermath of their loss, the Jarretts find that what lies beneath the veneer of a perfectly ordinary family are people broken by tragedy, grown distant and unfamiliar to one another. Fifty years later, Ordinary People remains an extraordinary novel about a family divided by pain yet bound by their determination to heal.
Author
Judith Guest
Judith Guest was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Education in 1958. She is the author of Ordinary People and Second Heaven. Ordinary People was adapted into the 1980 film of the same name that went on to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Guest lives in Edina, Minnesota, and Harrisville, Michigan.
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