Six months later, a severely depressed Conrad attempted suicide by slashing his wrists with a razor in the bathroom.
It is slightly more than a year since their elder son Buck was killed when a sudden storm came up while he and their other son Conrad were sailing on Lake Michigan. The novel begins as life is seemingly returning to normal for the Jarretts of Lake Forest, Illinois, in September 1975. For a time they had entered the world of the newspaper statistic a world where any measure you took to feel better was temporary, at best, but that is over.
The novel received the 1976 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and is also assigned in many American secondary school English classes. 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.Īlthough 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. Ordinary People is Judith Guest's first novel.
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