Caroline's Daughters - Couverture rigide

Adams, Alice

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0816153027 ISBN 13 : 9780816153022

Editeur : G K Hall & Co, 1991

Synopsis

Book by Adams Alice

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Acclaimed author Alice Adams introduces five women who are very different from one another -- from their looks to their personalities to the life choices they make -- in this hauntingly sensitive novel. Sage, the beautiful struggling artist, is caught in a hurtful marriage to a younger man; Lisa, overweight and happily married mother of three, fantasizes about living a different, more daring, life; Jill and Fiona are both blond, thin, and career-driven. Finally, there is Portia who, at twenty-five, suffers from chronic indecision and finds herself feeling very alone in the world. These women, who might ordinarily have little in common, are inextricably intertwined, for they are all Caroline's daughters.

Now that her daughters are grown, Caroline feels an aching distance between herself and her children. Helpless to intervene in their lives, unable to spare them pain, she still finds that the love that ties a family together is more powerful than the mistakes they all make. Through the heartaches and the celebration, Caroline learns to step back and watches as her daughters grow into the kind of women she could never have expected.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Alice Adams, born in Virginia and educated at Radcliffe College, is the author of ten highly praised novels. Her short stories have appeared in twenty-two O. Henry Awards collections and several volumes of Best American Short Stories. She has been the recipient of an Academy and Institute Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Ms. Adams' other novels include Superior Women, a New York Times bestseller, Almost Perfect, Medicine Men, and Second Chances, all published by Washington Square Press. She lives in San Francisco.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: G K Hall & Co
• Date d'édition: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0816153027
• ISBN 13: 9780816153022
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 426