What Girls Learn - Couverture rigide

Cook, Karin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0679448284 ISBN 13 : 9780679448280

Editeur : Pantheon Books, 1997

Synopsis

Two young sisters--Tilden, wise beyond her years, and the rebellious Elizabeth--struggle to cope with the complexities of family life and growing up as their mother meets a new man, they move up North from Atlanta, and their mother confronts a diagnosis of breast cancer

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A touching novel about girls and their mothers, sibling rivalry and kinship, and the mysterious tug between love and antagonism that lies at the heart of every family.  
 
The year Tilden turns twelve, her mother, Frances, falls in love and moves the family north.  Soon the watchful, wise Tilden and her rebellious younger sister, Elizabeth, are navigating a new household amidst the awkward and alluring terrain of adolescence.  But when Frances suddenly discovers a lump in her breast, her daughters must confront the unpredictablility of her illness.  With heartbreak and humor, these characters exposes a world of secrets and learn to survive in the face of life's contradictions.  
 
This moving, emotionally stirring debut novel will appeal to fans of Anna Quidlen's One True Thing and Mona Simpson's Anywhere But Here. Funny, haunting, and unflinchingly truthful on every page, What Girls Learn is a book that will be read--and cherished-- for years to come.

Présentation de l'éditeur

In the most moving and emotionally stirring fictional debut since Anna Quidlen's One True Thing or Mona Simpson's Anywhere But Here, Karin Cook gives us a novel about girls and their mothers, about sibling rivalry and kinship, about the mysterious tug between love and antagonism that lies at the heart of every family.  The year Tilden turns twelve, her mother, Frances, falls in love and moves the family north.  Soon the watchful, wise Tilden and her rebellious younger sister, Elizabeth, are navigating a new household amidst the awkward and alluring terrain of adolescence.

But when Frances suddenly discovers a lump in her breast, her daughters must confront the unpredictablility of her illness.  With heartbreak and humor, these characters exposes a world of secrets and learn to survive in the face of life's contradictions.  Funny, haunting, and unflinchingly truthful on every page, What Girls Learn is a book that will be read--and cherished-- for years to come.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pantheon Books
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0679448284
• ISBN 13: 9780679448280
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible