Ordinary People: 50th-Anniversary Edition

One of the foremost literary 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

They were a perfect family. Calvin was a successful provider and Beth a fastidious wife. They had two sons, Buck and Conrad, but now they have one.

When originally published, Ordinary People introduced an original American voice. It sold more than a million copies and inspired the 1980...