Up Island - Hardcover

Siddons, Anne Rivers

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568954859 ISBN 13: 9781568954851

Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc, 1997

Synopsis

When her perfect life begins to crumble, Molly Bell Redwine--dutiful daughter, perfect wife, nurturing mother, and family protector--journeys to Martha's Vineyard in search of refuge, the meaning of life, and her own place in the world

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Review:

Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.

About the Author:

Anne Rivers Siddons's bestselling novels include Nora, Nora; Sweetwater Creek; Islands; and Fox's Earth. She is also the author of the nonfiction work John Chancellor Makes Me Cry. She and her husband divide their time between Charleston, South Carolina, and Brooklin, Maine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1568954859
• ISBN 13: 9781568954851
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 537