Ordinary People (Guest novel)
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For the 2003 Osbourne family memoir, see Ordinary People: Our Story. For the 2018 novel by Diana Evans, see Ordinary People (Evans novel).
Ordinary People is Judith Guest's first novel. Published in 1976, it tells the story of a year in the life of the Jarretts, an affluent suburban family trying to cope with the aftermath of two traumatic events.
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Author | Judith Guest |
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Cover artist | James Zar |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Psychological novel |
Publisher | Viking Press |
Publication date | July 1976 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 245 pp. (first edition, hardback) |
ISBN | 0-670-52831-5 (first edition, hardback), ISBN 0-14-006517-2. |
OCLC | 2020624 |
813/.5/4 | |
LC Class | PZ4.G954 Or PS3557.U345 |
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Although it won critical praise and awards upon its release, it is best remembered today as the basis for the 1980 film version, which won four Academy Awards including Best Picture. The novel received the 1976 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and is also assigned in many American secondary school English classes.