Whispers

Zusatztext "Subtle and intelligent." --   West Coast Review Of Books .  "Impeccably done" -- Booklist . "By getting under the  skin of each of her diverse characters! Plain  delivers a story of considerable impact."  -- Publisher's Weekly . Informationen zum Autor Belva Plain captured readers' hearts with her first novel, Evergreen , which Delacorte published more than 30 years ago. It topped the New York Times best-seller list for 41 weeks and aired as an NBC-TV miniseries. In total, more than 20 of her books have been New York Times best sellers. Before becoming a novelist,  Belva Plain wrote short stories for many major magazines, but taking care of a husband and three children did not give her the time to concentrate on the novel she had always wanted to write. When she looked back and said she didn't have the time, she felt as though she had been making excuses. In retrospect, she said, "I didn't make the time." But, she reminded us, during the era that she was raising her family, women were supposed to concentrate only on their children. Today 30 million copies of her books are in print. A Barnard College graduate who majored in history,  Belva Plain enjoyed a wonderful marriage of more than 40 years to Irving Plain, an ophthalmologist. Widowed for more than 25 years, Ms. Plain continued to reside in New Jersey, where she and her husband had raised their family and which was still home to her nearby children and grandchildren until her death in October 2010. Klappentext Robert and Lynn Ferguson are a picture-perfect couple with two beautiful daughters and a lovely home in an exclusive Connecticut community. Robert is on the fast track of a major corporation. Lynn is devoted to her family and good works. But in the Ferguson's closed doors hide a painful secret Lynn must keep from the world-and her children-at any cost... Not even the Fergusons's best friends, Josie and Bruce Lehman, know of Lynn's shame. Social worker Josie sees her bruises distrusts the too-ambitious, too perfect Robert, and suspects the real cause of the children's increasingly disturbed behavior. But not even Josie can pierce Lynn's wall of silence, a wall that will not crumble until Lynn is forced to face herself-and the truth-at last. Belva Plain's searing novel of a family's heartbreak, a woman's courage, and a subject too often talked about only in whispers.In dodging Robert’s hand, the furious hand aimed at her face, she fell and struck the edge of the closet’s open door instead. Now on the floor, stunned by a rush of pain, she leaned against the wall, touched her cheek, and, in a kind of astonishment, stared at the blood on her hand.   Robert’s eyes and his mouth had become three dark, round holes in his face.   “Oh, good God!” He knelt beside her. “Let me look. No, let me, Lynn! Thank goodness it’s nothing. Just a break in the skin. An accident … I’ll get a washcloth and ice cubes. Here, let me pull you up.”   “Don’t touch me, damn you!” Thrusting his hand away, she pulled herself up and sat down on the bed between the suitcases. Her face burned, while her cold fingers felt for the rising lump on her cheekbone. Another lump, thick with outrage and tears, rose in her throat.   Robert bustled between the bedroom and the bathroom. “Damn, where’s the ice bucket? In a first-class hotel like this you’d think they’d put—oh, here it is. Now just lie back. I’ll fix the pillows. Hold this to your face. Does it hurt much?”   His expressions of anxiety were sickening. She closed her eyes. If she could have closed her ears, she would have done so. His voice, so rich, so beautifully modulated, was trying to soothe her.   “You tripped. I know I raised my hand but you tripped. I’m sorry, but you were so angry, you were almost hysterical, Lynn, and I had to stop you somehow.”   She opened her e...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Belva Plain
• Verlag: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 10.03.1994
• EAN: 9780440216742
• ISBN: 978-0-440-21674-2
• Seiten: 480
• Abmessung: 106 mm x 175 mm x 33 mm
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur