Gossip: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Gutcheon, Beth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 006193142X ISBN 13 : 9780061931420

Editeur : William Morrow, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Gutcheon Beth

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

The critically acclaimed author of Good-bye and Amen, Leeway Cottage, and More Than You Know returns with a sharply perceptive and emotionally resonant novel about all the ways we talk about one another, the sometimes fine line between showing concern and doing damage, and the difficulty of knowing the true obligations of friendship

Gossip
Beth Gutcheon

"Did you know that the origin of the word gossip in English is 'god-sibling'? It's the talk between people who are godparents to the same child, people who have a legitimate loving interest in the person they talk about. It's talk that weaves a net of support and connection beneath the people you want to protect."

Loviah "Lovie" French owns a small, high-end dress shop on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Renowned for her taste and discretion, Lovie is the one to whom certain women turn when they need "just the thing" for major life events—baptisms and balls, weddings and funerals—or when they just want to dish in the dressing room. Among the people who depend on Lovie's confidence are her two best friends since boarding school: Dinah Wainwright and Avis Metcalf.

Outspoken and brimming with confidence, Dinah made a name for herself as a columnist covering the doings of New York's wealthiest and most fabulous. Shy, proper Avis, in many ways Dinah's opposite, rose to prominence in the art world with her quiet manners, hard work, and precise judgment. Despite the deep affection they both feel for Lovie, they have been more or less allergic to each other since a minor incident decades earlier that has been remembered and resented with what will prove to be unimaginable consequences.

These uneasy acquaintances become unwillingly bound to each other when Dinah's favorite son and Avis's only daughter fall in love and marry. On the surface, Nick and Grace are the perfect match—a playful, romantic, buoyant, and beautiful pair. But their commitment will be strained by time and change: career setbacks, reckless choices, the birth of a child, jealousies, and rumor. At the center of their orbit is Lovie, who knows everyone's secrets and manages them as wisely as she can. Which is not wisely enough, as things turn out—a fact that will have a shattering effect on all their lives.

An astute chronicler of everything that makes us human, Beth Gutcheon delivers her most powerful and emotionally devastating novel to date. Gossip is a tale of intimacy and betrayal, trust and fidelity, friendship, competition, and motherhood that explores the myriad ways we use and abuse "information" about others—be it true, false, or imagined—to sustain, and occasionally destroy, one another.

Revue de presse :

“[E]nthralling . . . triumphant and true.” (Boston Globe)

“[C]ompellingly drawn...A true New England novel, charming but a bit chilly.” (Kirkus Reviews on GOOD-BYE AND AMEN)

“[C]ompelling...Beautifully written and told from varying points of view, this sweeping saga will strike a chord with anyone who loves to read about family. Four stars.” (Romantic Times on GOOD-BYE AND AMEN)

“A great drama, cinematically told . . . [Gutcheon] writes elegantly about the complex bonds of family.” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

“A remarkably rich and emotionally jarring novel filled ultimately with hope.” (Pages Magazine)

“Editor’s Choice.” (Denver Post on GOOD-BYE AND AMEN)

“Good-Bye and Amen is a tour de force of structure and voice. Gutcheon had me at the first sentence and I didn’t put the book down until I had finished it. Marvelous and memorable.” (Karen Joy Fowler, author of Wit’s End and The Jane Austen Book Club)

“The book reads seamlessly...Gutcheon is a novelist with a poetic grasp of the language and a keen eye for the quirks and foibles that make us human. ” (San Antonio Express-News on GOOD-BYE AND AMEN)

“A good old–fashioned, all–encompassing read, with tears and smiles guaranteed.” (Library Journal)

“Beth Gutcheon has something real to say . . . There is a world of entertainment in Domestic Pleasures.” (—The New York Times Book Review)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 006193142X
• ISBN 13: 9780061931420
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288