Mourning Ruby - Rilegato

Dunmore, Helen

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ISBN 10: 0399151486 ISBN 13: 9780399151484

Casa editrice: Putnam Pub Group, 2004

Riassunto

Abandoned as a baby, Rebecca has no tie to her parents other than the men's size-eleven shoebox in which she was found. Yet she grows from a child of no one and nowhere into a woman who creates her own unorthodox but tender family. First, there is Joe-a brilliant historian and loyal friend who longs for more than Rebecca can give him, but whose devotion sustains her. Adam, Joe's friend, is the man who becomes her husband. And Ruby is the daughter whom Rebecca loves with almost unbearable intensity.

Then this hopeful life is dealt a blow that could shatter the strongest ties. Rebecca flees her marriage, and Adam sinks into a life numbed by routine and isolation. In the end, it is Joe who enables them to find the way back to understanding, and offers Rebecca a history that she can call her own.

Illuminated by both sorrow and vivid joy, Mourning Ruby is ultimately about the transcendent power of storytelling itself.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Helen Dunmore is the author of seven novels, including A Spell of Winter, With Your Crooked Heart, and Talking to the Dead, and has been published in fifteen countries. She is also a children's novelist, short-story writer, prizewinning poet, and the first-ever winner of Britain's prestigious Orange Prize.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Putnam Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0399151486
• ISBN 13: 9780399151484
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 278
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile