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| Layout: | Hardcover | ISBN: |
9780307595126 |
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| Synopsis | |
| In her finest-selling debut, Graduation, J. Courtney Sullivan explored the complicated and contradictory panorama of female friendship. Now, in her highly anticipated 2d unique, Sullivan takes us into even richer territory, introducing four unforgettable ladies who haven’t got one thing in total however the reality that, uncover it irresistible or not, they’re family. For the Kellehers, Maine is a field the place young other folks urge in packs, showers are taken outdoors, and extinct Irish songs are sung around a piano. Their beachfront property, won on a barroom guess after the warfare, sits on three acres of sand and pine nestled between stretches of rocky soar, with one tree bearing the initials “A.H.” At the cottage, built by Kelleher hands, cocktail hour follows morning mass, nosy grandchildren snoop in drawers, and a protracted time-extinct grudges simmer beneath the skin. As three generations of Kelleher ladies fall on the property one summer season, every brings her hang hopes and fears. Maggie is thirty-two and pregnant, looking out forward to the supreme 2d to expose her traipse boyfriend the guidelines; Ann Marie, a Kelleher by marriage, is channeling her domestic frustration into a dollhouse obsession and an sick-told crush; Kathleen, the gloomy sheep, by no methodology wished to field foot within the cottage again; and Alice, the matriarch on the heart of all of it, would commerce every floorboard for an opportunity to undo the events of one evening, ability relieve. By turns wickedly silly and achingly unhappy, Maine unveils the sibling rivalry, alcoholism, social mountain climbing, and Catholic guilt on the heart of one family, on the side of the abiding, continually irrational savor that retains them coming relieve, every summer season, to Maine and to every assorted. From the Hardcover edition. Three generations of girls converge on the family seaside house in this wickedly silly, emotionally resonant legend of savor and dysfunction from the author of the bestselling debut unique “Graduation.” | |
| Product Identifiers | |
| ISBN-10 | 0307595129 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780307595126 |
| eBay Product ID (ePID) | 99548582 |
| Key Minute print | |
| Creator | J. Courtney Sullivan |
| Number Of Pages | 400 pages |
| Layout | Hardcover |
| Newsletter Date | 2011-06-14 |
| Language | English |
| Writer | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Team |
| Newsletter 365 days | 20110000 |
| Further Minute print | |
| Copyright Date | 2011 |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 25 Oz19459027] |
| Height | 1.6 In. |
| Width | 6.6 In. |
| Dimension | 9.6 In. |
| Intention Audience | |
| Team | Switch |
| Classification Blueprint | |
| LCCN | 2011-003396 |
| LC Classification Number | PS3619.U43M35 2011 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813.6 |
| Dewey Edition | 23 |
| Opinions | |
| “You create not want the radical to full in July. You pick to prefer to follow the Kellehers straight by to the discontinuance of August, till the sand cools, the sailboats depart from their moorings, and every final secret has been pried up.” -Lily King, The Unique York Cases E book Overview “I essentially own by no methodology stayed at this cottage in Maine, or any cottage in Maine, however no topic: I now feel I do know what it”s love being in a family that involves the identical field summer season after summer season, unpacking their acquainted longings, slights, shorthand conversation, and systems of being collectively. J. Courtney Sullivan”s Maine is evocative, silly, shut-quartered, and highly appealing.” Meg Wolitzer, author of The Uncoupling “An supreme summer season read. . . . Gives us . . . characters we are in a position to care about, despite their normally too-acquainted flaws.” – USA At present time “Attentive to class distinctions and hierarchies, as neatly as ancient pressures and family dynamics, Sullivan items ladies who may perhaps well be stubborn and complicated, however she does so with such compassion and humor that we, too, discontinuance up rooting for them. Even when Maine weren”t field on a seaside, it shall be a ideal seaside e book.” – Chicago Tribune “Sullivan’s smarts clarify issues all families take care of, however her tasteful ability on the complicated ones (in particular stylish-day religious considerations) shine by. The solid of quirky characters can own you laughing out loud and aching for his or her regrets within the identical chapter, pining for more pages when it involves an discontinuance.” -MarieClaire.com ” Maine ‘s brisk storytelling, and the unfurling of its central thriller . . . sweep readers on the side of intellectual sink-into-your-deck-chair ease.” – Leisure Weekly “Curl up with this wry, appealing unique and snoop on a summer season’s worth of secrets and ways, feuds, and misunderstandings.” – Parade journal “Ms. Sullivan’s follow-up to her finest-selling unique, Graduation . . . follows adult young other folks who procure at their seaside cottage in Maine to sip that familial cocktail of bother and savor. . . . As soon as the ladies are collectively, the fuse is lighted. Ms. Sullivan locks the doorways and waits for the explosion.” – The Unique York Cases “[Sullivan] validates the extinct adage that that you just would perchance well perhaps perchance also dangle your friends, however that you just would perchance well perhaps perchance also very neatly be stuck with your members of the family. Right here’s a highly optimistic, evocative legend, fantastically written to exclaim raw human emotions. . . . Unique and interesting. . . . Right here’s a neatly-crafted legend about adversarial family relationships and indecent habits, loaded with tension, secrets and ways, booze, marital war, stinging arguments, and a few very silly scenes.” – The Unique Maine Cases ” Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan is a highly optimistic unique in regards to the ties that bind families tight, no topic how dysfunctional. Sullivan has created within the Kelleher ladies a solid of flawed however adorable characters so actual, with their shared ancient past of guilt and heartache and secret resentments, that I’m sure I’ll be fascinated by them for a essentially prolonged time to reach.” Amy Greene, author of Bloodroot “All people has shadowy secrets and ways. Or not it is why God invented confession and booze, two balms normally employed in Sullivan’s neatly-wrought sophomore effort. Alice Brennan is Irish American by and by, the daughter of a cop, a actual Catholic girl so outwardly pure that she’s a candidate for the papacy. . . . As Sullivan’s legend unfolds, there are heaps of reasons that Alice may perhaps well pick to steer obvious of taking too shut a survey at her lifestyles: There’s tragedy and heartbreak around every nook, as there may be in every lifestyles. . . . Sullivan spins a unhurried fable that seems to be into why other folks discontinuance the things they discontinuance-in particular when it involves ingesting and churchgoing-and why the finest-laid plans are for all time the ones the devil monkeys with essentially the most thoroughly. The legend will be in particular meaningful to Catholic ladies, although there aren’t any boundaries to entry for those which may even very neatly be not of that faith. Oldschool, considerate, even meditative at instances-however moreover pretty involving. “You donât want the radical to full in July. You pick to prefer to follow the Kellehers straight by to the discontinuance of August, till the sand cools, the sailboats depart from their moorings, and every final secret has been pried up.” -Lily King, The Unique York Cases E book Overview “I essentially own by no methodology stayed at this cottage in Maine, or any cottage in Maine, however no topic: I now feel I do know what it”s love being in a family that involves the identical field summer season after summer season, unpacking their acquainted longings, slights, shorthand conversation, and systems of being collectively. J. Courtney Sullivan”s Maine is evocative, silly, shut-quartered, and highly appealing.” âMeg Wolitzer, author of The Uncoupling “Sullivanâs smarts clarify issues all families take care of, however her tasteful ability on the complicated ones (in particular stylish-day religious considerations) shine by. The solid of quirky characters can own you laughing out loud and aching for his or her regrets within the identical chapter, pining for more pages when it involves an discontinuance.” -MarieClaire.com ” Maine âs brisk storytelling, and the unfurling of its central thriller . . . sweep readers on the side of intellectual sink-into-your-deck-chair ease.” – Leisure Weekly “Curl up with this wry, appealing unique and snoop on a summerâs worth of secrets and ways, feuds, and misunderstandings.” – Parade journal “Ms. Sullivanâs follow-up to her finest-selling unique, Graduation . . . follows adult young other folks who procure at their seaside cottage in Maine to sip that familial cocktail of bother and savor. . . . As soon as the ladies are collectively, the fuse is lighted. Ms. Sullivan locks the doorways and waits for the explosion.” – The Unique York Cases “[Sullivan] validates the extinct adage that that you just would perchance well perhaps perchance also dangle your friends, however that you just would perchance well perhaps perchance also very neatly be stuck with your members of the family. Right here’s a highly optimistic, evocative legend, fantastically written to exclaim raw human emotions. . . . Unique and interesting. . . . Right here’s a neatly-crafted legend about adversarial family relationships and indecent habits, loaded with tension, secrets and ways, booze, marital war, stinging arguments, and a few very silly scenes.” – The Unique Maine Cases ” Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan is a highly optimistic unique in regards to the ties that bind families tight, no topic how dysfunctional. Sullivan has created within the Kelleher ladies a solid of flawed however adorable characters so actual, with their shared ancient past of guilt and heartache and secret resentments, that Iâm sure Iâll be fascinated by them for a essentially prolonged time to reach.” âAmy Greene, author of Bloodroot “All people has shadowy secrets and ways. Itâs why God invented confession and booze, two balms normally employed in Sullivanâs neatly-wrought sophomore effort. Alice Brennan is Irish American by and by, the daughter of a cop, a actual Catholic girl so outwardly pure that sheâs a candidate for the papacy. . . . As Sullivanâs legend unfolds, there are heaps of reasons that Alice may perhaps well pick to steer obvious of taking too shut a survey at her lifestyles: Thereâs tragedy and heartbreak around every nook, as there may be in every lifestyles. . . . Sullivan spins a unhurried fable that seems to be into why other folks discontinuance the things they discontinuance-in particular when it involves ingesting and churchgoing-and why the finest-laid plans are for all time the ones the devil monkeys with essentially the most thoroughly. The legend will be in particular meaningful to Catholic ladies, although there aren’t any boundaries to entry for those which may even very neatly be not of that faith. Oldschool, considerate, even meditative at instances-however moreover pretty involving.” â Kirkus “At the coronary heart of this compelling unique of three generations of girls emotionally stunted by fate and willful stubbornness is the family vacation property in Cape Neddick, ME, the place the Kellehers own convened for six a protracted time. . . . In her 2d unique (after Graduation ), Sullivan brilliantly lays out the case for the almost about futile process of these three generations of badly broken Irish Catholic ladies attempting to obtain acceptance from one one other. | |
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