Until the End of Time - Large Print Edition

Zusatztext Praise for Danielle Steel “Steel is one of the best!” — Los Angeles Times “Few modern writers convey the pathos of family and material life with such heartfelt empathy.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer “Steel pulls out all the emotional stops. . . . She delivers!” — Publishers Weekly “What counts for the reader is the ring of authenticity.” — San Francisco Chronicle Informationen zum Autor Danielle Steel Klappentext #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Two couples! four decades apart. One believes that if lovers die! they find each other again in another life. Or perhaps they wind up as stars side by side in the sky! together forever. Who knows how it really ends? Danielle Steel breaks new ground in her career as a perennial New York Times bestseller with the poignant story of two parallel destinies! and the kind of love we all hope will be everlasting. UNTIL THE END OF TIME Bill! a dedicated young lawyer working at his family's prestigious New York firm! leaves everything he trained for to follow his dream and become a minister in rural Wyoming. Jenny! his wife! is a stylist whose heart and soul are invested in fashion. She leaves the milieu and life she loves to join him. The certainty they share is that their destinies are linked forever. Fast forward thirty-eight years. Robert is a hardworking independent book publisher in Manhattan who has given up all personal life to build his struggling business. He is looking for one big hit novel to publish. Lillibet is a young Amish woman! living as though in the seventeenth century! caring for her widowed father and three young brothers on their family farm. In secret at night! by candlelight! she has written the novel that burns within her! and gets it into Robert's hands! wrapped in her hand-stitched apron. He falls in love first with the book! and then with the woman he has never met! living in the sequestered world of the Amish-a world without telephones! computers! electricity! modern conveniences! or cars. Although Lillibet faces banishment from her family and community! she embraces the opportunity to publish her novel! and is irresistibly drawn to the man who has heard her voice. Destiny is at work here. Fate draws her from her horse-and-buggy life toward his! and the publication of her novel. In the hands of master storyteller Danielle Steel! these two remarkable relationships come together in unexpected and surprising ways! as lovers are lost! and find each other again. If it is true that real love lasts forever and lovers cannot lose each other! then Until the End of Time will not only comfort and fascinate us! as destiny does her dance! but it will give us hope as well. Love and fate are powerful! irresistible forces! as Steel proves to us here! in a book about courage! change! risk! and hope . . . and love that never dies. 9780345530899|excerpt Steel / UNTIL THE END OF TIME Chapter 1 The atmosphere in a room off the ballroom of the Hotel Pierre in midtown New York was fraught with tension as forty-five tall, rail-thin, bare-breasted models were getting their hair and makeup done, while simultaneously trying on shoes, and dresses for last-second alterations. David Fieldston was looking them over carefully, while a cameraman filmed him for a documentary on Fashion Week, and he explained the inspiration for his winter line. He was a stylish-looking man in his late forties, with gray hair, and he had been an important name in the fashion world for twenty years. Two years earlier he had been on the verge of bankruptcy, and the fashion press said his designs lacked energy, his work was all déjà vu, and he was out of steam. And now, thanks to a dynamo named Jenny Arden, he was back on the map. His last season had been his best one ever. His designs had taken off again, and his career wi...

Product details

• Authors: Danielle Steel
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2013
• EAN: 9780307990914
• ISBN: 978-0-307-99091-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature