Love And Other Impossible Pursuits

Ayelet Waldman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2007
Black Swan (Verlag)
978-0-552-77292-1 (ISBN)

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Is Emilia, the wicked stepmother incarnate? Passionately in love with her husband, Emilia has a secret, guilty loathing for her precocious little stepson, William - a forty-year-old in a five-year-old's body, whom she picks up from nursery every Wednesday afternoon. How can she forgive William for living, when her own cherished child has gone?

Is Emilia the wicked stepmother incarnate?

Passionately in love with her husband, Emilia has a secret, guilty loathing for her precocious little stepson, William - a forty-year-old in a five-year-old's body, whom she picks up from nursery every Wednesday afternoon. He is lactose intolerant, she feeds him dairy products; he mustn't get cold, she pushes him - accidentally - into the pond in Central Park. How can she forgive William for living, when her own cherished child has gone?

'Moving and darkly funny, romantic, shocking, painful page-turner...says something new and interesting about women, families and love' New York Times

'One moment I was laughing out loud..the next I had tears pouring down...whether you're a parent or not, you can't fail to be moved' Daily Express

Ayelet Waldman was a criminal defence lawyer before she became a full-time writer. She is married to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon and they live in California with their four children.Love and Other Impossible Pursuits is her first novel to be published in the UK.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2007
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 198 mm
Gewicht	231 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-552-77292-5 / 0552772925
ISBN-13	978-0-552-77292-1 / 9780552772921
Zustand	Neuware