66 Laps: A Novel - Rilegato

Spirson, Leslie Lehr

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ISBN 10: 0375503846 ISBN 13: 9780375503849

Casa editrice: Villard Books, 2000

Riassunto

As a thirty-two-year-old wife and mother takes out her frustrations swimming endless laps in the pool, she learns that her husband is having an affair with a woman ten years younger than herself.

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Recensione:

"The prose is luminous and passionate, and
the story of Audrey's season of doubt and love is irresistible and ultimately heartbreaking. The author knows what Tolstoy knew, that it's the simple, ordinary life that is the most terrible, the most tragic, the most compelling. The story is about the new monogamy, the old infidelity, about the power we give to strangers and the fragility of intimacy. It's about dreams and nightmares, betrayal and seduction. The voice is engaging, the characters memorable and moving, the subject important. You can't trust a woman in love, Audrey tells us. Indeed. 66 Laps reminded me of why I started reading stories in the first place: to be enchanted, to live in a world that is more vivid and more compelling than the one I come from."

--John Dufresne, author of Love Warps the
    Mind a Little and Louisiana Power & Light

L'autore:

Leslie Lehr Spirson is the winner of the 1998 Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Gold Medal for Best Novella. She wrote the film Heartless as well as several humorous parenting books; 66 Laps is her first novel. A graduate of the U.S.C. School of Cinema/ TV, she lives in Southern California with her husband and daughters.

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• Editore: Villard Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375503846
• ISBN 13: 9780375503849
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 214