King of the World (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Merrill Joan Gerber
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late 1960’s to the early 1980’s
- Setting: Mexico and California
- Principal Characters: Ginny Fisher, Michael Fisher, Adam Fisher, Agnes Fisher, Paula, Annie
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Abused persons, Marriage, Mental illness, Adoption or adopted children, Paranoia
- Locales: California, Mexico
Accounts of wife and child abuse are the daily stuff of newspaper and television reports. The most sensational of these stories have been analyzed in sociological treatises and thinly disguised in fictional accounts with graphic details. Fortunately, Merrill Joan Gerber’s King of the World is neither of these. Although the novel examines what has come to be known in popular psychological terminology as a “dysfunctional family,” Gerber generally veers away from sensationalism in favor of peering into the quirks and glitches in her characters’ personalities. This is a tale...
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