Jane Alison

The Sisters Antipodes (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A wrenching, luminous memoir" of how betrayal and divorce transformed two families and the lives of two young women (People). When Jane Alison was a child, her family met another that seemed like its mirror. Each had a father in the Foreign Service, a beautiful mother, and two little girls. The younger two-one of them Jane-even shared a birthday. With so much in common, the two families quickly became inseparable. Within months, affairs had ignited between the adults, and before long the pairs had exchanged partners-divorced, remarried, and moved on. As if in a cataclysm of nature, two families were ripped asunder, and two new ones were formed. Two pairs of girls were left in shock, a "silent, numb shock, like a crack inside stone, not enough to split it but inside, quietly fissuring." And Jane and her stepsister were thrown into a state of wordless combat for the love of their fathers. This true story of their rivalry, and the tragic loss that ultimately followed, is a fascinating record of how adult behavior can shape, or shatter, a childhood. Spanning from Australia to the United States, it is "enormously compelling . . . [A] harrowing journey of identity" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547488653
• Artikelnr.: 40176143

Autorenporträt

Jane Alison is the author of three novels: The Love-Artist, The Marriage of the Sea, and Natives and Exotics. She teaches in the MFA programs at the University of Miami and Queens University in Charlotte.