Beth’s reactions to situations could have maybe been better, but every person handles tragic events in different ways. She has a side to her that makes the reader want to dislike her, but as the story unfolds the reader then gets a deeper understanding. O元340137W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.93 Pages 280 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1850180180 In the novel Ordinary People by Judith Guest, Beth Jarret may come across as the antagonist. Urn:lcp:ordinarypeople00gues:epub:eae9d13e-f187-4ea4-8d68-ffdf5ff364c7 Extramarc University of Pennsylvania Franklin Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier ordinarypeople00gues Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t45q5jt3d Isbn 0140065172Ġ881030384 Lccn 82009834 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Containerid_2 X0001 Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition External-identifier Killing Time in St.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:56:36 Boxid IA109604 Boxid_2 CH101201 Camera Canon 5D City Prince Frederick, Md.Guest, her three sons, and their families, reside in Edina, Minnesota. Guest was married for nearly 50 years to her college sweetheart, businessman Larry LaVercombe (1936-2009). Guest's most recent book, The Tarnished Eye (2004), is loosely based on a real unsolved crime in her native Michigan. Guest co-authored the mystery Killing Time in St. Guest also wrote the screenplay for the 1987 film Rachel River. This novel and two others, Second Heaven (1982) and Errands (1997), are about adolescents forced to deal with crises in their families. Guest's first book, Ordinary People, published in 1976, was the basis of the 1980 film Ordinary People that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Guest taught at a public school for several years before deciding to work full-time completing a novel.
She was also a member of Sigma Kappa sorority. Guest then studied English and psychology at the University of Michigan. When her family moved to Royal Oak, she transferred to Royal Oak High School she graduated in 1954. Guest attended Detroit's Mumford High School in 1951. She is a recipient of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.
She was born in Detroit, Michigan and is the great-niece of Poet Laureate Edgar Guest (1881–1959). Judith Guest (born March 29, 1936) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
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