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The Matter of Grace - Couverture souple

Barksdale Inclan, Jessica

 
9780451205759: The Matter of Grace
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0451205758 ISBN 13 : 9780451205759
Editeur : Berkley, 2006

Synopsis

Booklist praised Her Daughter's Eyes as "a modern-day depiction of familial disintegration with offbeat twists and luminous sparks of hope." Now, Jessica Barksdale Incl&aacuten reveals the closely intertwined lives of four women-their struggles to be good wives, mothers, friends-and the troubled secrets they hide.

Every summer, Felice, Helen, Stella, and Grace meet at Oakland View Swim and Tennis Club, watching their children learn to swim, slowly becoming friends. After seven years, there is no reason to think things will ever change-until the summer Grace's illness returns. On the brink of crisis, as the women try to help Grace confront a trauma that begins to seem quite different from what she claims, they are forced to examine their own lives...and face a painful truth. That they don't really know Grace-or themselves-at all...

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À propos de l'auteur

Jessica Barksdale Inclán teaches writing, mythology, and women's literature at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California.

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Éditeur
Berkley
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0451205758
ISBN 13 
9780451205759
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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