The Story of Beautiful Girl - Couverture rigide

Simon, Rachel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0446574465 ISBN 13 : 9780446574464

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Simon Rachel

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

On a stormy night in small-town America, a couple, desperate and soaked to the skin, knock on a stranger's door. When Martha, a retired schoolteacher living a safe and conventional life, answers their knock, her world changes forever.

For they are fugitives. Lynnie, a young woman with an intellectual disability, and Homan, a deaf man with only sign language to guide him, have escaped together from The School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, a brutal institution where people with disabilities are left to languish, shuttered away from the world.

In a moment of despair, they reveal that Lynnie has a newborn baby. But, moments later, the police bang on the door. Homan escapes into the darkness, Lynnie is captured. But just before she is returned to The School, bound and tied, she utters two words to Martha: "Hide her." And so begins the unforgettable story of Lynnie, Homan, Martha, and baby Julia - lives divided by seemingly insurmountable obstacles, yet drawn together by a secret pact and extraordinary love.

Devastatingly powerful and richly compelling, The Story of Beautiful Girl is a mesmerising novel which will captivate readers everywhere.

Présentation de l'éditeur

It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape, and find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a retired schoolteacher and widow. But the couple is not alone-Lynnie has just given birth to a baby girl. When the authorities catch up to them that same night, Homan escapes into the darkness, and Lynnie is caught. But before she is forced back into the institution, she whispers two words to Martha: "Hide her." And so begins the 40-year epic journey of Lynnie, Homan, Martha, and baby Julia-lives divided by seemingly insurmountable obstacles, yet drawn together by a secret pact and extraordinary love.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Grand Central Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0446574465
• ISBN 13: 9780446574464
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 352