Love and Other Impossible Pursuits - Rilegato

Waldman, Ayelet

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ISBN 10: 0385515308 ISBN 13: 9780385515306

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2006

Riassunto

Harvard Law graduate Emilia Greenleaf's perfect life with her beloved Jack is turned upside down by her new preschool-age stepson, William, a situation that is further complicated when she loses her own newborn daughter, but it is through William that she begins to heal and to discover what family really means. 75,000 first printing.

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A beautiful novel. If you are not moved to tears, then your heart is carved from wood.”
—Andrew Sean Greer, author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli


Ayelet Waldman . . . looks past headlines and into the heart. What she finds there is hope for us all.”
—Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina

“I thought the heroine was a great accomplishment... . . . And William is a triumph.”
Diane Johnson, author of Le Divorce

“I read this book in one sitting while lying on my favorite couch. And I’ll read it again on a future road trip. And I’ll read it for a third time in the bathtub. Ayelet Waldman is that good.”
Sherman Alexie, author of Ten Little Indians

“LOVE AND OTHER IMPOSSIBLE PURSUITS is the most riveting and sharply rendered novel I’ve read in years. Ayelet Waldman writes the language of grief with virtuosic fluency. Piercing, provocative, and unflinchingly honest, she makes us rapt participants in her protagonist’s struggle with the most painful complications of marriage and motherhood. Once you begin this book, there will be no putting it down. Once you’ve finished, you will never forget it.”
Julie Orringer, author of How To Breathe Underwater

“This novel is, to quote a favorite song, ‘sly, slick and wicked wicked wicked child.’ It’s wickedly funny in the minute details of contemporary life and love and parenting, but it’s sly the way Waldman makes the reader laugh at the spectacle of a mother trying to manufacture love for one child, while making the reader tearful about the loss of another child. In the end, this novel conjures up the magical balance of both.”
— Susan Straight, author of Highwire Moon

L'autore:

AYELET WALDMAN is the author of Daughter’s Keeper and of the Mommy-Track mystery series. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Believer, Child magazine, and other publications, and she has a regular column on Salon.com. She and her husband, the novelist Michael Chabon, live in Berkeley, California, with their four children.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0385515308
• ISBN 13: 9780385515306
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 340