Labor Day - Softcover

Maynard, Joyce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061893927 ISBN 13: 9780061893926

Verlag: Harperluxe, 2013

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Book by Maynard Joyce

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"Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with LABOR DAY. From the perfect pitch of a teenaged boy narrator to the eloquent message of how loneliness can bind people together, this is simply a novel you cannot miss." -- Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Handle Wi

"Joyce Maynard is one of those blessed authors who can compress al lifetime's worth of ideas and emotions into a spare piece of work....Maynard has forged an indelible, precise portrait of early adolescence. It's a perfect late-summer book, a page-turner that also makes you think." -- Dallas Morning News

"beautifully written" -- New Orleans Times-Picayune

"a haunting and hopeful story" -- Hartford Courant

"surprisingly moving" -- Arizona Republic

""Labor Day" is suffused with tenderness, dreaminess and love....first and foremost a page-turner...[it] puts back together the world that it destroys....you definitely need to get a box of tissues."--Newsday

"Maynard gets inside the head of an adolescent boy who is grappling with his own identity and the mysteries of sex (while revealing the secrets of making perfect pie crust). "--Salt Lake City Tribune

"a haunting and hopeful story"--Hartford Courant

"At once beautiful and disturbing, this remarkable novel...is a moving read."--BookPage.com on LABOR DAY

"[The] story is moving and fast-moving, affirming Maynard's reputation as a master storyteller and showing her to be a passionate humanist with a gifted ear and heart. . . . Maynard illuminates the human experience."--People (Four Stars)

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“Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with Labor Day. Simply a novel you cannot miss.”

—Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of My Sister’s Keeper and Keeping Faith

“Maynard has created an ensemble of characters that will sneak into your heart, and warm it while it breaks.”

—St. Petersburg Times

Joyce Maynard, acclaimed author of At Home in the World, is back with Labor Day. The  unforgettable story of a mother and son forever changed during a long summer weekend when a mysterious man comes into their lives. Labor Day is “a sexy, page turning, poignant story” (Jane Hamilton, author of A Map of the World) that “affirms Maynard’s reputation as a master storyteller and shows her to be a passionate humanist with a gifted ear and heart” (People)

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• Verlag: Harperluxe
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0061893927
• ISBN 13: 9780061893926
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320