One True Thing

Quindlen, Anna

ISBN 10: 044022103X / ISBN 13: 9780440221036

Editore: Dell, 1995

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One True Thing is a film starring Meryl Streep as the cancer-stricken homem aker mother, Renee Zellweger as the daughter who quits her top-dog job to c are for her, and William Hurt as the chilly professor who lets the women in the family do the heavy emotional lifting dying requires. But the real sta r of the project remains former New York Times everyday-life columnist Anna Quindlen, who quit her top-dog job to write novels (and who took time off from college to nurse her own dying mother). Quindlen hit a nerve with One True Thing, which captures an experience seld om dealt with in popular culture. (One exception: the sensitive 1996 film w ith Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio of the play Marvin's Room.) Though the her oine of One True Thing, Ellen Gulden, is a golden girl with two brothers wh o'll lose her career the instant she steps off the fast track, society conc urs with her dad, who says, "It seems to me another woman is what's wanted here." The book is a mother-daughter tale that should please fans of, say, The Joy Luck Club. It's not flashy, but it has a deep feel for the way children often discover, just before it's too late, who their parents really are. "Our parents are never people to us," Ellen writes, "they're always character traits. There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat." The mercy-killing subplot isn't gripping, but the palpable sense of deepening family intimacy certainly is. --Tim Appelo.

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• Titolo: One True Thing
• Editore: Dell
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 044022103X
• ISBN 13: 9780440221036
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • General Fiction

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Riassunto

The basis of a 1998 motion picture starring Meryl Streep and William Hurt, a New York Times best-seller features a young woman wrongly imprisoned for the mercy killing of her mother. Reissue. Movie tie-in.

Recensione

"Fiercely compassionate and frank...conveys a world so out of kilter and so like ours that its readers are likely to feel both exhilarated and unnerved by its accuracy."
--Elle

"A masterpiece."
--Tulsa World

"Provocative...We leave One True Thing stimulated and challenged, more thoughtful than when we began."
--Los Angeles Times

"It is simply impossible to forget."
--Alice Hoffman