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基本信息·出版社：New American Library
·页码：299 页
·出版日期：2006年10月
·ISBN：0451219481
·条形码：9780451219480
·版本：2006-10-01
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·丛书名：Nal Accent Novels
·外文书名：最重要的事
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Book DescriptionFor thirty-six years, Georgie Merkin adored her father, Adam, beloved pediatrician, frustrated poet, and buffer against her cold, fiercely ambitious mother, Dr. Estelle Merkin. When Adam dies of cancer, Georgie - a magazine writer and self-sufficient divorcee with a young son - must envision a world without her father's shelter.
With regal Estelle crumbling in her grief long after the funeral, Georgie must find the courage to confront their years of detachment and misunderstanding. Secret histories wash up in sorrow's wake, and the scars of Estelle's past resurface, with a truth that may finally bind them into a family - or tear them apart forever. As her world seems to collapse around her, Georgie may just rediscover an unexpected love and the depth of the roots that define her.
Book Dimension length: (cm)20.7 width:(cm)13.4
作者简介 Nicole Bokat is the author of
Redeeming Eve and
The Novels of Margaret Drabble. She has taught at NYU, the New School, and Hunter College, and has written for several national publications.
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From Publishers Weekly In this moving follow-up to Redeeming Eve, Bokat''s heroine, magazine writer and single mother Georgie Merkin, has just lost her beloved father, Adam, to cancer. Relations with her cold, critical mother, Estelle, are frostier than ever, especially with family members dropping hints about a secret Estelle has been keeping from her daughter. A lonely Georgie has a rendezvous with her oblivious, unavailable ex-husband Lucas-an indulgence that has high emotional costs-but eventually decides to take a chance on kindly, thoughtful veterinarian Ian, whose own divorce is still pending. Bokat does a superb job of tackling the tensions that burden relationships, whether they''re romantic or familial. Her technique for getting the reader to initially revile then later understand Estelle, however, is clunky: the author delves 43 years into the past and switches point-of-view in the middle of the book to disclose the secret Estelle''s been harboring, an unfortunate narrative decision that slays the story''s momentum. Once Bokat returns to the present in the final third, the book deftly navigates Georgie''s coming to terms with her mother''s secret and her own personal demons. Another well-rounded offering from Bokat that readers of women''s fiction will enjoy.
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