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Robinson, Roxana

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ISBN 10 : 0007284535 ISBN 13 : 9780007284535

Editeur : HarperPerennial, 2009

Synopsis

Powerful, moving and gripping, this is an extraordinary novel about the ways that secrets and lies can tear a family apart.

When Julia Lambert settles into her idyllic Maine house for the summer, she plans to spend the time tending her fragile relationship with her father, a retired but demanding neurosurgeon, and her gentle mother, who is descending, unnoticed, into Alzheimer's. But a shattering revelation intrudes: her youngest son Jack, far from being the charming and much-loved maverick of the family, has spiralled into heroin addiction.

Desperate to save him, Julia calls on all the members of her loose-knit family: her elderly parents; remarried ex-husband; detached sister; and combative eldest son. As heroin sweeps through each of their lives, with its impersonal and devastating energy, it drags the family into a world in which deceit, crime and fear are part of daily life.

In her cool, elegant prose, Robinson delivers a novel of loss and love that is complex, surprising and breathtaking in its pace.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Roxana Robinson is the author of four novels and three short-story collections, as well as one biography. Four of her works have been named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine and Vogue, among other publications, and she has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperPerennial
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0007284535
• ISBN 13: 9780007284535
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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