Sleep Toward Heaven: A Gripping Literary Drama of Three Women Bound by Murder and Fate on Death Row - Couverture souple

Ward, Amanda Eyre

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060582294 ISBN 13 : 9780060582296

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2004

Synopsis

By the New York Times bestselling author of Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick The Jetsetters, the impressive debut novel about three disparate women who are irrevocably connected by one crime and a brutal Texas summer on death row.

In Gatestown, Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Karen awaits her execution on Death Row. In Manhattan, Franny Wren, a twenty-nine-year-old doctor, plans her wedding to her college sweetheart and resists the urge to run from a carefully crafted and seemingly satisfying life. In Austin, Texas, Celia, a brassy young librarian, mourns her murdered husband and struggles to find a sense of self, wholeness and a will to live.

A luminous story of murder and desire, solitude and grace, fate pushes these eerily recognizable women together, culminating in a revelation of the possibility of faith, the responsibility of friendship, the value of life and the execution of a serial murderer.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Amanda Eyre Ward is the critically acclaimed author of seven novels, including The Jetsetters, How to Be Lost, Close Your Eyes, The Same Sky, and The Nearness of You. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her family.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Amanda Eyre Ward's debut novel is an intimate portrait of three women whose lives collide during a brutal Texas summer.

In Gatestown, Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Karen Lowens awaits her execution with a host of convicted serial killers on death row. In Manhattan, Dr. Franny Wren, also twenty-nine, tends to a young cancer patient, and resists the urge to run from her fiancé and her carefully crafted life. In Austin, Texas, brassy Celia Mills, a once-vibrant librarian, mourns her murdered husband.

Over the course of the summer, fate pushes these eerily recognizable women together, culminating in a revelation of the possibility of faith, the responsibility of friendship, and the value of life. Sleep Toward Heaven is a luminous story of murder and desire, solitude and grace -- a rare literary page-turner where redemption seems perpetually within arm's reach.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0060582294
• ISBN 13: 9780060582296
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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