Monica Wood: How to Read a Book
How to Read a Book
Buch
- HarperCollins, 05/2024
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780063243675
- Bestellnummer: 11050262
- Umfang: 288 Seiten
- Gewicht: 454 g
- Maße: 231 x 150 mm
- Stärke: 30 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 7.5.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
From the award-winning author of The One-in-a-Million Boy comes a deeply moving story about a young woman recently released from prison who finds an unlikely ally in the widower of the woman she killed.Our Reasons meet us in the morning and whisper to us at night. Mine is an innocent, unsuspecting, eternally sixty-one-year-old woman named Lorraine Daigle...
Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher.
Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest.
Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn't yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed.
When the three encounter each other one morning in a bookstore in Portland?Violet to buy the novel she was reading in the prison book club before her release, Harriet to choose the next title for the women who remain, and Frank to dispatch his duties as the store handyman?their lives begin to intersect in beautiful, transformative ways.
How to Read a Book is an unsparingly honest and profoundly hopeful story about letting go of guilt and seizing second chances. With the heart, wit, grace, and depth of understanding that has characterized her work, Monica Wood illuminates the decisions that define a life and the kindnesses that make life worth living.
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Monica Wood
How to Read a Book
EUR 28,91*