A Perfect Arrangement: A Novel - Rilegato

Berne, Suzanne

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1565122615 ISBN 13: 9781565122611

Casa editrice: Algonquin Books, 2001

Riassunto

Mirella and Howard Cook-Goldman's new nanny, Randi Gill, seems perfect, but when their seamless life begins to unravel, the young woman assumes an inapproppriate place in the family structure, in a suspenseful novel by the author of A Crime in the Neighborhood. BOMC, Teen People, & Lit Guild.

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Praise for A Perfect Arrangement:

"Suzanne Berne has many gifts, among them the talent to describe with eloquence and empathy the fault line of her characters. There's an exotic beauty in Berne's natural world as well. In A Perfect Arrangement everyday life outdoors for the Cook - Goldmans is illuminated with the clarity and color of a Maxfield Parrish illustration. Inside the house, Berne's beloved and flawed people struggle to make their way in love and work in the all too modern world." (Jane Hamilton, author of A Map of the World and Disobedience)

"Who is 'authorized' to love us, to love our children, our work - finally, who deserves to share the bounty of our lives? Suzanne Berne examines many kinds of possession, parental, erotic, economic, even environmental, and dramatizes these very challenging questions with dead-on aim and just what A Crime in the Neighborhood led us to expect: a scrupulous, unsentimental sympathy beautifully served by the precision of her prose." (Rosellen Brown, author of Half a Heart and Before and After)

Praise for A Crime in the Neighborhood

"A remarkable first novel that captures the history of child-parent relations in the last quarter-century, from the adults' betrayal to the new generation's revenge." (The New York Times Book Review)

"A Crime in the Neighborhood resonates with those fragile necessities of life, keenly aware of the scent of newly mowed lawns and the dangers that might land on any one of them." (The Boston Globe)

"In this novel, Berne's first, the telling is an exciting and elegant as the story being told." (USA Today)

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

Mirella and Howard Cook-Goldman are living the American dream - two careers, two kids, a golden retriever, a historic colonial home in a quaint New England village - and it's a nightmare. Both children are troubled, the house is a wreck, Howard's architectural career has stalled just as Mirella's law practive is taking off. Plus the au pair just quit.

Then one damp spring morning, sweet, eager Randi Gill appears on their doorstep, the ideal nanny. Armed with impeccable references from a top child-care placement agency, fresh from teaching Sunday school, Randi cooks, bakes, cleans, and does arts and crafts. She even makes her own play dough. The children fall in love with her, especially silent little Jacob. It's not long before Randi has charmed the whole neighborhood.

So why do Mirella and Howard each harbor misgivings about the growing attachment between Randi and the children? And why, amid such cozy domestic order, does their marriage suddenly seem to be falling apart?

In her suspenseful, wry, disturbing second novel, Suzanne Berne exposes the confusion and doubt that haunt all working parents as they struggle to balance family and professional life. A Perfect Arrangement asks the crucial question: Is there anyone you can trust with your children?

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• Editore: Algonquin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1565122615
• ISBN 13: 9781565122611
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 301