Laura Brodie

The Widow's Season

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Produktbeschreibung

David ist beim Kajakfahren in einer Springflut umgekommen. Doch man hat nur das Boot gefunden, seine Leiche bleibt verschollen. Eines Tages sieht Sarah David beim Einkaufen im Supermarkt, später im Flur ihres Hauses und draußen vor dem Küchenfenster. Gaukelt ihre Phantasie ihr etwas vor, ist das ein Ausdruck ihrer Trauer? Oder ist es ein Geist, der ihr da erscheint? Dann klopft es (ausgerechnet an Halloween) an ihre Tür, und ihr Mann steht davor. Sie lässt ihn herein und hört eine unglaubliche Geschichte ...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berkley Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9780425227657
• ISBN-10: 0425227650
• Artikelnr.: 26009732

Autorenporträt

Laura Brodie is a Harvard graduate and visiting professor of English at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. Her first book, Breaking Out: VMI and the Coming of Women, was published by Pantheon to critical acclaim. Her memoir, One Good Year: Love in a Time of Homeschooling, is forthcoming from Harper. The Widow’s Season, her first novel, won the 2005 Faulkner Society/Evans Harrington Grant for Best Novel-in-Progress. Laura lives with her husband and their three daughters in Lexington, Virginia.

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"In The Widow's Season, Brodie draws on literary traditions, but hides the academic stuff under the flow of smart dialogue and sharp detail. This is a work of craft and imagination."
-Roanoke Times

"In The Widow's Season, Laura Brodie confronts all the twists and turns of grief and loss, love and marriage, and the human heart with honesty, humor, and great intelligence. This novel is spellbinding, right up to its surprising and poignant final page."
-Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle

"The Widow's Season is far more than what it seems to be at first - a straightforward story of a woman getting used to a crushing loss. It's smarter, slyer, and more unconventional than that. It's haunting-and haunted too."
-Elizabeth Benedict, author of Almost and The Practice of Deceit

"In The Widow's Season, Brodie draws on literary traditions, but hides the academic stuff under the flow of smart dialogue and sharp detail. This is a work of craft and imagination."
-Roanoke Times

"In The Widow's Season, Laura Brodie confronts all the twists and turns of grief and loss, love and marriage, and the human heart with honesty, humor, and great intelligence. This novel is spellbinding, right up to its surprising and poignant final page."
-Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle

"The Widow's Season is far more than what it seems to be at first - a straightforward story of a woman getting used to a crushing loss. It's smarter, slyer, and more unconventional than that. It's haunting-and haunted too."
-Elizabeth Benedict, author of Almost and The Practice of Deceit