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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 512 pages. Greenie Duquette is the fiery proprietor of her ow n Greenwich Village pastry business. When Greenie's signature coc onut cake is served to the governor of New Mexico, he invites her to be his personal chef; impulsively she accepts. And when she h eads west with her four-year-old son but without her husband, she sets in motion a period of adventure and upheaval - physical, em otional, sensual - not only for herself but for others who are dr awn into her orbit: Alan, her psychotherapist husband, alone in N ew York and trying to make sense of his own life; Walter, the urb ane yet old-fashioned gay man who owns the beloved village restau rant where the govenor ate Greenie's confection; Scott, Walter's teenage nephew, whose dreams of becoming a musician bring him to his uncle's doorstep; and Saga, a young woman recovering from a t raumatic injury. We watch as serendipity and determination pull t hese lives ever more tightly together over the course of the year that culminates in the tragedy of 9/11 - a day that will galvani se each of the characters to seize life in a wholly new way. char acter; weaving a dazzling tapestry of lives and lifetimes, of peo ple and places; revealing the subtle mechanisms behind our most i mportant, and often most tragic, connections to others. In The Wh ole World Over, she has given us another novel that pays tribute to the extraordinary complexities of love. Codice articolo 2390w
Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Good. Greenie Duquette, openhearted yet stubborn, devotes most of her passionate attention to her Greenwich Village bakery and her four year old son, George. Her husband, Alan, seems to have fallen into a mid-life depression, while Walter, a traditional gay man who has become her closest professional ally, is nursing a broken heart. It is at Walter's restaurant that the visiting governor of New Mexico tastes Greenie's coconut cake and decides to woo her away from the city to be his chef. For reasons both ambitious and desperate, she accepts - and finds herself heading west without her husband. This impulsive decision will change the course of several lives within and beyond Greenie's orbit. Alan, alone in New York, must face his demons; Walter, eager for platonic distraction, takes in his teenage nephew Yet Walter cannot steer clear of love trouble and, despite his enforced solitude, Alan is still surrounded by women: his powerful sister, an old flame, and an animal lover named Saga, who grapples with demons of her own. As for Greenie, living in the shadow of a charismatic politician leads to a series of unseen consequences that separate her from her only child. We watch as folly, chance and determination pull all these lives together and apart over the year that culminates in the fall of the twin towers at the World Trade Center, an event that will affirm or confound the choices each character has made - or has refused to face. 513 pages. Codice articolo 1509193