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Summer reading : a novel / Hilma Wolitzer.

Wolitzer, Hilma. (Author).

Summary:

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]

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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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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Iredell County Public Library.

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