My Russian (Ballantine Reader's Circle) - 5 Angebote vergleichen

Von Händler/Antiquariat, BobPrudhomme, Relentless Bookfinder [650083], New York, NY, U.S.A.
Marfree, tite qual Ballentine ed has Reader's Guide + Conversation w author; not written-in, underlined, remainder or ex-library. Slight cover curl. Mail SAMEDAY! From Cynthia Shearer - Hungry Mind ReviewEach detail.is offered as evidence in a kind of interior tribunal against her culture, and we are to believe that the evidence indicates a broader doom than the personal one the narrator feels.McNamer is a writer to watch in the coming years.From Susan BolotinTo me.[Francesca's] compulsion to see herself from the outside in doesn't feel like a falling apart; instead it's more like a coming together - the need to meld self and identity that one usually associates with coming of age. And this is what I liked most about My Russian.McNamer is a careful writera master of the smalltelling observationbut her plotting slows things down. She could learn a lesson from Tom Wolfe: You can't try too hardor it shows. -The New York Times Book Rev. From Book Magazine: Nothing about this remarkable n; 0.69 x 8.26 x 5.48; 278 pages.

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contemporary,family saga,genre fiction,literary,literature and fiction,mystery thriller and suspense,psychological thrillers,thrillers, My Russian (Ballantine Reader's Circle), Francesca Woodbridge's seemingly normal life as wife and mother in a Midwestern town belies a fierce and consuming "desire for desire." Though the narrator of My Russian has suppressed her true nature for many years, when her lawyer-husband, Ren, is shot by a mysterious intruder, she realizes she cannot, like other people, handle her "roiling dreams, morning sweats ... like pets that can be sent back to obedience school." But this is just the latest in a long string of events that have poisoned her domestic life. Years before, Ren abandoned his ideals and took a job with a white-shoe firm, and Francesca is eternally angry at him for it. She begins to transgress--a liaison with a young man, then an affair with her Russian gardener. But it is when she takes a break from tending Ren after the shooting and goes to Greece (only to sneak home and live in disguise at a motel for a week) that her life is altered irrevocably. Deirdre McNamer's third novel is infused with a deep melancholy rooted in her character's awareness of life's fragility. It is precisely this awareness that forces Francesca to be true to her desire for desire, no matter the outcome. "I'm hoping to channel it into something constructive," she says, "but it's possible that that won't happen. It may be my religion, my way of insisting on the existence of some unseeable truth. It may also be a way of going blind. Of missing what's best when it's right before your eyes." A scary religion, that, but as My.

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My Russian, While her family thinks she is vacationing in Greece, Francesca Woodbridge -- disguised by the wig, the dress, and the limp of an elderly woman -- checks into a local hotel just blocks from her home. The reason for her deceit is twofold: to step outside of her life and observe it from a distance, and to watch the comings and goings in her neighborhood for clues to potential suspects in her husband's shooting.Ever since the night her husband, Ren, was wounded by an intruder's gun, Francesca has felt uneasy in their marriage and resentful of how Ren has changed over the years. Now, as an undercover spy on her own life, she scans her history in her unsparing, sometimes darkly funny search for clarity -- from the idealistic days of college when she first fell in love, through the quiet disappointments that have collected in the depths of her soul, to her recent, passionate affair with her Russian gardener, Yuri, whose sudden, unexplainable disappearance leads her to question just who she has become. As she seeks an answer, she meets people she could have never known in her "real" life and views people she thought she knew as strangers. As she reveals who shot her husband, she is forced to see herself in a bold, new, and entirely unexpected light....

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While her family thinks she is vacationing in Greece, Francesca Woodbridge, disguised as an elderly woman, checks into a local hotel just blocks from her home. Her motivation: to step outside of her life and discover who shot and seriously wounded her husband months before. 304 pp. 15,000 print.Taal: Engels;Afmetingen: 18x210x139 mm;Gewicht: 132,00 gram;Verschijningsdatum: juli 2000;ISBN10: 0345439511;ISBN13: 9780345439512; Engelstalig | Paperback | 2000.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, R&R Books.
Ballantine Books, 2000-07-05. Paperback. Very Good. VG Nice copy with light cover wear. Pages clean with tight binding.