Family Pictures - A Novel

Zusatztext “Absolutely flawless. It captures perfectly the sass and grit of family life. Harrowing and funny and haunting.”    Informationen zum Autor Sue Miller is the bestselling author of While I Was Gone , The Distinguished Guest , For Love , Family Pictures , Inventing the Abbotts , and The Good Mother . She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Klappentext “Profoundly honest, shapely, ambitious, engrossing.”—New York Times Book Review From New York Times bestselling author Sue Miller comes a masterful, engrossing novel about the life of a large family that is deeply bonded by the stranger in their midst—an autistic child. The whole world could not have broken the spirit and strength of the Eberhardt family of 1948. Lainey is a wonderful if slightly eccentric mother. David is a good father, sometimes sarcastic, always cool-tempered. Two wonderful children round out the perfect picture. Then the third child arrives—and life is never the same again. Over the next forty years, the Eberhardt family struggles to live with a flood tide of upheaval and heartbreak, love and betrayal, passion and pain...hoping they can someday heal their hearts.  Family Pictures is an unforgettable, insightful, and resounding novel of strength and resiliency against overwhelming circumstances. Zusammenfassung “Profoundly honest, shapely, ambitious, engrossing.”— New York Times Book Review From New York Times bestselling author Sue Miller comes a masterful, engrossing novel about the life of a large family that is deeply bonded by the stranger in their midst— an autistic child. The whole world could not have broken the spirit and strength of the Eberhardt family of 1948. Lainey is a wonderful if slightly eccentric mother. David is a good father, sometimes sarcastic, always cool-tempered. Two wonderful children round out the perfect picture. Then the third child arrives—and life is never the same again. Over the next forty years, the Eberhardt family struggles to live with a flood tide of upheaval and heartbreak, love and betrayal, passion and pain...hoping they can someday heal their hearts.  Family Pictures is an unforgettable, insightful, and resounding novel of strength and resiliency against overwhelming circumstances. ...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Sue Miller
• Edition: Harper Perennial USA
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9780062973528
• ISBN: 978-0-06-297352-8
• Pages: 464
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 27 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Romance, Historical romance, Historical fiction, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, United States of America, USA, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Plays, Playscripts, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Romance / Contemporary, FICTION: Romance / Romantic Comedy, DRAMA: American / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION: Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION: Sagas, FICTION: Disabilities & Special Needs, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Modern and Contemporary romance, FICTION: Historical / 20th Century / General