One True Thing - Couverture souple

Quindlen, Anna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099281791 ISBN 13 : 9780099281795

Editeur : Arrow Books Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

When Ellen Gulden learns that her mother has cancer, her father insists that Ellen come home to look after Kate. Ellen has always been the special child, the high achiever, her father's intellectual match. All her successes have been geared to pleasing her academic father, yet as Ellen cares for Kate she learns many surprising things about her mother's life and the choices she has made. As Kate Gulden's pain increases so does Ellen's belief that her mother's suffering in unendurable. That doesn't mean she could possibly give the overdose of morphine that kills her, but, standing accused of a mercy-killing, she believes she knows who did.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Anna Quindlen] writes passionately . . . painstakingly uncovering all the intensity, suspicion and primitive love that bonds mothers and daughters.”—The Boston Globe
 
Ellen Gulden is enjoying her career as a successful magazine writer in New York City when she learns that her mother, Kate, is dying of cancer. Ellen’s father insists that she quit her job and return home to become a caregiver. A high-powered career woman, Ellen has never felt she had much in common with her mother, a homemaker and the heart of their family. Yet as Ellen begins to spend time with Kate, she discovers many surprising truths, not only about herself, but also about the woman she thought she knew so well.
 
Later, when Ellen is accused of the mercy killing of her mother, she must not only defend her own life but make a difficult choice—either accept responsibility for an act she did not commit or divulge the name of the person she believes committed a painful act of love.
 
Praise for One True Thing
 
“A triumph.” —San Francisco Chronicle
 
“We leave One True Thing stimulated and challenged, more thoughtful than when we began.” —Los Angeles Times
 
“Like a brush with mortality, One True Thing leaves the reader feeling grateful, wide awake, lucky to be alive.” —Michael Chabon
 
“It calls you back for another read. . . . This is a book of catharsis.” —The Denver Post
 
“Fiercely compassionate and frank.” —Elle

Quatrième de couverture

A young woman is in jail accused of the mercy killing of her mother. She says she didn't do it.

Ellen Gulden is a young, successful New York journalist. When her mother gets cancer, her father, a university professor, insists she come home. As she looks after her mother, their relationship - tender, awkward and revealing - deepens and Ellen is forced to confront painful truths about her adored father.

But as Kate lies dying, and in the weeks that follow her death, events take a shocking and unexpected turn. Family emotions are laid bare as a new drama is played out: between Ellen and her brothers, between Ellen and her father, and in court.

'Quindlen's extraordinary moving novel is about responsibilities, compassion and growing up.' Daily Mail

' One True Thing is so uncomprimising in its portrait of life and death, so honest in its rendering of love and loss, that it is simply impossible to forget.' Alice Hoffman

'The relationship between mother and daughter is a triumph. This novel deserves to be bought, read and kept.' Elizabeth Jane Howard

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arrow Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099281791
• ISBN 13: 9780099281795
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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