April & Oliver: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Callahan, Tess

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0446540595 ISBN 13 : 9780446540599

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Callahan Tess

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

April and Oliver are soul mates, the attraction between them has always been palpable. But as the years have passed this once inseparable couple have become strangers. Only after the sudden death of April's brother do their wildly different lives collide once again. Oliver, the responsible, newly engaged law student, finds himself drawn ever closer to the reckless, mystifying April - and cracks begin to appear in his carefully constructed life.

Even as Oliver attempts to rescue his childhood friend from her grief, her menacing boyfriend, and herself, it is obvious that Oliver has some secrets of his own - secrets he has never shared with anyone. April alone knows, and her reappearance derails him.

But is it April's life that is unravelling, or his own? And will their magnetic attraction for one another ever lead to happiness? Or are they better apart?

In the delicious tradition of Jane Austen... Callahan's prose is flexible enough to manoeuvre expertly between the past and present... The result is a moving story and an impressive debut

Boston Globe

Callahan's poetic style and grasp of emotion is sure to engage, sadden, and enthrall readers

Publisher's Weekly

A sensitive and emotional account of two people grappling with the complicated force of mutual attraction when it strikes the right people at the wrong time

Washington Post

Revue de presse

I'm sorry to report that since APRIL & OLIVER is Tess Callahan's debut as a novelist, an immediate regret awaits all readers on the last page of this enormously sagacious and compelling book, to wit: that it's done, finished, consumed; that there are as yet no other Callahan novels to devour, and heaven only knows how long we must wait for the author's next work to reach our greedy hands. The urgency of Callahan's narrative and its volatile juxtapositions--innocent passion and dark sexuality; duty and desire; first love and ruined love--make it impossible not to care deeply for these characters and their thwarted yearning and their heart-wrenching stories.

-Bob Shacochis, National Book Award-winning author of Easy in the Islands

Grappling fates are the DNA of suspense, and Tess Callahan braids loss, longing, romance and violence into a tense, gratifying narrative. The characters in APRIL & OLIVER feel inexorable--either destined or doomed to be together. The need to discover which--and how--keeps the reader turning pages.

-Sven Birkerts, author of Reading Life: Books for the Ages

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Grand Central Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0446540595
• ISBN 13: 9780446540599
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336