PROPAG HORTIC CROPS: V6 HORT SCI SER HB - Softcover

Sebold, Alice

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9780330451352: PROPAG HORTIC CROPS: V6 HORT SCI SER HB

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ISBN 10: 0330451359 ISBN 13: 9780330451352

Publisher: Picador, 2008

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Helen Knightly has spent a lifetime trying to win the love of a mother who had none to spare. And as this electrifying novel opens, she steps over a boundary she never dreamt she would even approach. But while her act is almost unconscious, it also seems like the fulfilment of a lifetime's buried desire. Over the next twenty-four hours, her life rushes in at her as she confronts the choices that have brought her to this crossroads.

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About the Author:

Alice Sebold is the bestselling author of The Lovely Bones a novel, and Lucky, a memoir. She lives in California with her husband, the novelist Glen David Gold.

From AudioFile:

Listeners might be more easily absorbed into this brief lyrical novel were they not told in its opening sentences that the story�s narrator has just suffocated her rapidly deteriorating mother. From that point on, the story is told as a flashback involving an only child, a mentally ill mother, and a father who finally succeeds at suicide. Flashback requires reflection. Despite Joan Allen�s more than adequate rendering, audio by nature pushes ahead, not leaving a lot of space between the words. Repetition and slight variation, two of Sebold�s strong points on the page, become petty annoyances. New-age musical interludes between chapters are out of place with the tone of the novel. In this case, Sebold�s excellent writing has to be read on the page to be fully appreciated. R.R. � AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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