Glass People: A Novel - Softcover

Godwin, Gail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345389905 ISBN 13: 9780345389909

Verlag: Random House Publishing Group, 1996

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Book by Godwin Gail

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An attractive woman married to a California politician is dismayed to discover that her husband is only obsessed with her flawless beauty and is not concerned about her as a person. Reprint.

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UL. . .GODWIN IS BRILLIANT. . .DEFTLY PLOTTED AND IMAGINED. . . [It] deepened my long-cherished belief about certain forms of art: that in exploring extremities of human behavior, in forcing us to wade through real or metaphorical blood, such art saves us from these experiences and is cathartic in the best sense of the term."
--Joyce Carol Oates
The Washington Post
Francesca married her husband Cameron, an ambitious Los Angeles district attorney, because he asked. Beautiful and pampered, she has never worked and has never wanted to. She lives only to appreciate the finer things and to be adored. But after four years of marriage, she finds herself unable to move, to dress in the morning, or to take the elevator outside.
Lately, she finds her days drifting by in a haze. She'd like to leave Cameron, but the effort seems too great. Instead, she visits her mother, once her closest confidante, now indifferent and distant. As Francesca prays for rescue, change makes a surprise ap

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• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0345389905
• ISBN 13: 9780345389909
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216