New Year's Eve: A NovelCrown, 30. 5. 2012. - 366 страница Part contemporary family drama, part ghost story, this engrossing novel dramatizes the difficult process of letting go of one's childhood to embrace one's new chosen family. This is the story of twin sisters, their children, and an accident that claims the life of one, and leaves the others to find their way away from, and back to each other. |
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... beside him, content to enjoy the joke she'd made, just as, often, she was content to enjoy the confusion she made, or the sorrow. I didn't laugh with them. I couldn't. I felt awful for Dad. For years, he'd been growing old gracefully,
... beside him, content to enjoy the joke she'd made, just as, often, she was content to enjoy the confusion she made, or the sorrow. I didn't laugh with them. I couldn't. I felt awful for Dad. For years, he'd been growing old gracefully,
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A Novel Lisa Grunwald. awful for Dad. For years, he'd been growing old gracefully, but now he was facing retirement, he seemed beset by a roving obsession with time. He was sixty-eight and hypnotized by the specter of seventy. Jeffrey ...
A Novel Lisa Grunwald. awful for Dad. For years, he'd been growing old gracefully, but now he was facing retirement, he seemed beset by a roving obsession with time. He was sixty-eight and hypnotized by the specter of seventy. Jeffrey ...
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... he'd always liked best: the chance to invoke the future he loved, and to banish the useless past. When our mother had been alive, she'd always managed to tease him about it. But she had been gone for nearly three years, and, with her ...
... he'd always liked best: the chance to invoke the future he loved, and to banish the useless past. When our mother had been alive, she'd always managed to tease him about it. But she had been gone for nearly three years, and, with her ...
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... he'd really said was: What about me? What I'd really said was: What about me? I was not used to being his nemesis, let alone his scold. But I was also not used to feeling that he was the Other—the foreign, male, presence—that Heather ...
... he'd really said was: What about me? What I'd really said was: What about me? I was not used to being his nemesis, let alone his scold. But I was also not used to feeling that he was the Other—the foreign, male, presence—that Heather ...
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... he'd ever liked about me. I was impossible with him. I accused, apologized, wept, explained, exhorted, admonished, instructed, withdrew. I wanted him to find his own rhythm with Sarah, but all I perceived was a lack of rhythm, a failure ...
... he'd ever liked about me. I was impossible with him. I accused, apologized, wept, explained, exhorted, admonished, instructed, withdrew. I wanted him to find his own rhythm with Sarah, but all I perceived was a lack of rhythm, a failure ...
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