Summer reading : a novel / Hilma Wolitzer.
Can reading change your life? Following her acclaimed novel The Doctor s Daughter, award-winning author Hilma Wolitzer has now written a stirring tale about friendship, romance, inspiration, longing, and, especially, the love of good books. Summer Reading offers a seductive glimpse into the intersecting lives of three very different women. Summer in the Hamptons means crowded beaches during the day and lavish parties in the evening, but Angela Graves, a retired English professor, prefers the company of Gabriel Garci;a Márquez and Charlotte Brontë. Her only steady social contacts are with the women in the reading groups she leads, among them, is wealthy Lissy Snyder, a beautiful newlywed who hosts the twice-monthly meetings of the Page Turners and takes pains to hide a reading disability and her emotional neediness. Hamptons local Michelle Cutty, Lissy s housecleaner, eavesdrops on the group s discussionsof books and gossipwhen she s not snooping through Lissy s closets. All three women secretly struggle with troubling personal issues that threaten the tenuous balance of their lives: Lissy, abandoned by her father in childhood, is now the unwilling stepmother of her husband s hostile children; Michelle, resentful of the moneyed arrogance of the jet-setting, seasonal invaders,
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345485861
- ISBN: 0345485866
- ISBN: 9780345485878
- Physical Description: 251 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2007]
- Copyright: ©2007
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| Subject: | Book clubs (Discussion groups) > Fiction. Female friendship > Fiction. Women's friendships. Hamptons (N.Y.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Fiction. |
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- 21 of 22 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Iredell County Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Statesville Main Library | F WOLITZER (Text) | 33114015846686 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Statesville Main Library | F WOLITZER (Text) | 33114015846694 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
