A Map of the World (Oprah's Book Club) - Hardcover

Hamilton, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385500769 ISBN 13: 9780385500760

Verlag: Doubleday, 1999

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Book by Hamilton Jane

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While under the care of Alice Goodwin, a neighbor's child drowns in the Goodwins' pond, a devastating accident that has profound repercussions for the entire Goodwin family, in a story set in a small Midwestern farm town

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hor of the widely acclaimed The Book of Ruth comes a harrowing, heartbreaking drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives.

The Goodwins, Howard, Alice, and their little girls, Emma and Claire, live on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Although suspiciously regarded by their neighbors as "that hippie couple" because of their well-educated, urban background, Howard and Alice believe they have found a source of emotional strength in the farm, he tending the barn while Alice works as a nurse in the local elementary school.

But their peaceful life is shattered one day when a neighbor's two-year-old daughter drowns in the Goodwins' pond while under Alice's care. Tormented by the accident, Alice descends even further into darkness when she is accused of sexually abusing of a student at the elementary school. Soon, Alice is arrested, incarcerated, and as good as convicted in the eyes of a suspicious community. As a child

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• Verlag: Doubleday
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0385500769
• ISBN 13: 9780385500760
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400