Child of My Heart: A Novel

McDermott, Alice

ISBN 10: 1559277688 ISBN 13: 9781559277686

Verlag: Macmillan Audio, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

I had in my care that summer four dogs, three cats, the Moran kids, Daisy, my eight-year-old cousin, and Flora, the toddler child of a local artist. There was also, for a while, a litter of wild rabbits, three of them, that had been left under our back steps . . . Alice McDermotts haunting and enchanting new work of fictionher first since the bestselling Charming Billy, winner of the 1999 National Book Awardis narrated by a woman who was born beautiful. Her parents decided that her best chance in life was to marry a wealthy man, so she was raised on the east end of Long Island, among the country houses of the rich. On the cusp of fifteen, she is the towns most sought-after babysittercheerful, beloved, a wonder with children and animals, but also a solitary soul with an already complex understanding of human naturewhen her favorite cousin, Daisy, comes to spend the summer.The narrators witty, piquant, deeply-etched evocation of all that was really transpiring under the surface that seemingly idyllic season gives her wry taleinfused with suppressed passion, disappointment, and enduring hopeits remarkable vividness and impact. Once again, Alice McDermott explores the mysterious depths of what seems like everyday life with unforgettable insight and resonant emotional power.

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Alice McDermott won the National Book Award in 1998 for Charming Billy. She is the author of four other novels: At Weddings and Wakes, a New York Times bestseller, That Night; and A Bigamist's Daughter. She lives with her family outside Washington, D.C.

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This is a brave book matched by a brave performance. Even for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist such as McDermott, it was risky to build her next book around the day-to-day ministrations of a 15-year-old Long Island babysitter. But McDermott's writing is so lyrical, her insights so powerful and affecting that you find yourself looking forward to spending more time with her protagonist, Theresa, just as her wards do. Theresa is remarkably competent and kind, far more so than the parents of the children she tends. She is also precisely on the bridge between her own childhood and adulthood. Sheryl Bernstein captures this quality perfectly, but even more astounding is how, by lightening her voice, she portrays the novel's children, rendering them tenderly but not sugary. M.O. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Macmillan Audio
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1559277688
• ISBN 13: 9781559277686
• Einband: Audio CD
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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