The Fine Art of Insincerity

Zusatztext "Angela Hunt is a virtuoso of emotion. She is able to not only explore and explain feelings! but draw you into them with a deftness that’s nearly magical. All too soon! you’re reading these chapters and unable to put the book down. You need to know what happens next. Delightful! engaging and rich with emotion! Angela Hunt’s story of three sisters will make you want to reach out to your own sisters. If you’re looking for a good weekend read or perhaps a book that will help bring you closer to your own family! this one is it. Angela Hunt hits it out of the park." Informationen zum Autor Angela Hunt  is the bestselling author of more than 100 books, including  The Tale of Three Trees ,  Don’t Bet Against Me ,  The Note,  and  The Nativity Story . Her nonfiction book  Don’t Bet Against Me ,   written with Deanna Favre, spent several weeks on the  New York Times  bestseller list. Angela and her husband make their home in Florida with their dogs. Klappentext Three grown Southern sisters have 10 marriages between them. Ginger! the eldest! wonders if she's the only one who hasn't inherited what their family calls "the Grandma Gene": the tendency to like the casualness of courtship better than the intimacy of marriage. Leseprobe O n e   Ginger   Even without a calendar, I can feel Monday settling into my bones. I miss the postman because he comes early; Martha, my cleaning woman, arrives thirty minutes late; and the newspaper doesn’t show up at all. I trudge up the driveway and sort through the mail in my hand—mortgage statement, car loan reminder, bills from Sallie Mae and Stetson University. Four credit card offers. An envelope plastered with the image of that smirking insurance lizard. Michael’s copy of Civil War Times . I walk into the house, step over the cat sprawled on the rug, and drop the historical magazine onto the foyer table. I toss the bills onto the desk in the study, then pause to open the envelope from the mortgage company. Our loan has an adjustable rate, and I need to keep an eye on it. I turn toward the kitchen, but Martha blocks the doorway, a mop in her hand. “Don’t even think about it.” She glares at me from beneath steel gray brows. “My floor needs at least ten minutes to dry.” I glance past her, wondering if she managed to get up the spilled candle wax near the dining room table. Probably not, because she hasn’t had time to mop the floor and do spot scrubbing. But Martha, who passed her sixty-fifth birthday ages ago, has been with me fifteen years. This won’t be the first time I’ve discreetly cleaned up areas she missed. I give her a submissive smile. “I can wait.” I return to the study and look up when Michael steps out of our bedroom, already in his favorite tweed sport coat. He nods in my direction and gestures toward the mail. “Anything for me?” “Your magazine is on the table.” I smile and tilt my cheek for a good-morning kiss that doesn’t come. My timing is off, as usual. My husband is doubtless in a rush to get to the coffee shop and his first class. My coffee, he insists, barely merits a passing grade. Michael moves into the foyer, picks up the magazine, and pauses to skim the headlines on the cover. In the slanting light of early morning, he looks like a GQ cover model or a smoldering ad for Ralph Lauren. My own absentminded professor. My handsome husband who around unfamiliar people is still as shy as a boy on his first date. I smother a sigh as he drops the magazine into his backpack and glances at me. “Gotta run.” I wait, anticipating some word about whether he’ll call later, but he’s already reaching for the doorknob. “By the way”—he looks directly at me for the first time—“did I mention that we’re having after-hours department meetings this month? I pr...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Angela Hunt, Angela Elwell Hunt
• Editore: Simon & Schuster USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 03.05.2011
• EAN: 9781439182031
• ISBN: 978-1-4391-8203-1
• Pagine: 320
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi