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基本信息·出版社：Random House Inc.
·页码：226 页
·出版日期：2003年08月
·ISBN：0812968956
·条形码：9780812968958
·版本：2003-08-01
·装帧：平装
·开本：20开 Pages Per Sheet
·外文书名：祝福
内容简介 Book DescriptionThis bestselling novel by the author of
Black and Blue, One True Thing, Object Lessons, and
A Short Guide to a Happy Life begins when, late one night, a teenage couple drives up to Blessings, the estate owned by Lydia Blessing, and leaves a box there. In this instant, the world of Blessings is changed forever. The story of Skip Cuddy, caretaker of the estate, who finds a baby asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep her, and of matriarch Lydia Blessing, who, for her own reasons, decides to help him,
Blessing explores how the secrets of the past affect the decisions and lives of people in the present; what makes a person, a life, legitimate or illegitimate, and who decides; the unique resources people find in themselves and in community.
Blessing is a powerful novel of love, redemption, and personal change by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about whom
The Washington Post Book World said, "Quindlen knows that all the things we ever will be can be found in some forgotten fragment of family.
About AuthorAnna Quindlen is the author of three bestselling novels,
Object Lessons, One True Thing and
Black and Blue. Her
New York Times column "Public & Private" won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, and a selection of those columns was published as
Thinking Out Loud. She is also the author of a collection of her "Life in the 30's" columns,
Living Out Loud; a book for the library of Contemporary Thought.
How Reading Changed My Life; the bestselling
A Short Guide to a Happy Life, and two children's books,
The Tree That Came to Stay and
Happily Ever After. She is currently a columnist for
Newsweek and lives with her husband and children in New York City.
Book Dimension : length: (cm)17.4 width:(cm)10.4
