While I Was Gone [SIGNED EDITION]

Miller, Sue

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1999

Beschreibung

New condition burnt orange brown boards with a black spine and gold spine lettering contained in a new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Sue Miller; Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Preliminary Page Quote; and About the Author. Signed by the author with blue pen on a new condition free-standing (that is, not affixed to the front endpaper) Palm Beach Literary Society bookplate. "A decade ago she put a face on every mother's worst nightmare with her phenomenal bestseller The Good Mother. Now, Sue Miller delivers a spellbinding novel of love and betrayal that explores what it means to be a good wife. In the summer of 1968, Jo Becker ran out on the marriage and the life her parents wanted for her, and escaped - for one beautiful, idyllic year - into a life that was bohemian and romantic, living under an assumed name in a rambling group house in Cambridge. It was a time of limitless possibility, but it ended in a single instant when Jo returned home one night to find her best friend lying dead in a pool of blood on the living room floor. Now Jo has everything she's ever wanted: a veterinary practice she loves, a devoted husband, three grown daughters, a beautiful Massachusetts farmhouse. And if occasionally she feels a stranger to herself and wonders what happened to the freedom she once felt, or how she came to be the wife, mother, and doctor her neighbors know and trust - if at times she feels as if her whole life is vanishing behind her as she's living it - she need only look at her daughters or her husband, Daniel, to recall the satisfcations of family and community and marriage. But when an old housemate settles in her small town, the fabric of Jo's life begins to unravel: seduced again by the enticing possiblity of another self and another life, she begins a dangerous flirtation that returns her to the darkest moment of her past and imperils all she loves. While I Was Gone is an exquisitely suspenseful novel about how quickly and casually a marriage can be destroyed, how a good wife can find herself placing all she holds dear at risk. In expert strokes, Sue Miller captures the precariousness of even the strongest ties, the ease with which we abandon each other, and our need to be forgiven. An extraordinary book, her best, from a beloved American writer." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006167

Bibliografische Details

Titel: While I Was Gone [SIGNED EDITION]

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1999

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)