As If Love Were Enough: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Fleming, Anne Taylor

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1401301053 ISBN 13 : 9781401301057

Editeur : Hachette Books, 2006

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

From the author of Marriage: A Duet, comes a gripping novel that explores the intricate relationships of a family as its members grapple with love, loyalty, and their meaning to one another

With tenderness and wit, Anne Taylor Fleming returns to the complicated terrain of family life--love given, wounds inflicted--in her novel, As If Love Were Enough. When Clare Layton's actress mother leaves her husband and two small daughters to go off with her lover, their picture-perfect Hollywood family is shattered. Gone are the star-studded parties, the photo-op outings to Palm Springs. Father and daughters are left to cope and hang on, but finally Clare's older sister, Louise, also drifts away. Years pass without a word or sighting, and then Louise mysteriously reappears, hoping to enlist Clare in a medical quest to save her oldest, evangelical teenage son. Louise's reappearance plunges Clare back into her childhood in the early 60s and into a reckoning with her current role as single career woman and devoted mistress to a married politico. As Clare works toward a sense of peace and personal redemption, the novel examines religion and politics, forgiveness and reconciliation, and the deep tethers between long-estranged sisters trying to find their way back.

Biographie de l'auteur

Anne Taylor Fleming is a nationally recognized journalist and CNN NewsNight with Aaron Brown contributor. She is a regular on-camera essayist for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and the author of Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Town&Country, and More. She has been a radio commentator for NBC. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, journalist Karl Fleming.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hachette Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1401301053
• ISBN 13: 9781401301057
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352