Sisters and Strangers - Softcover

Van Slyke, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446312789 ISBN 13: 9780446312783

Publisher: Not Avail, 1983

Synopsis

Happy 50th Anniversary, Sam and Laura Dalton of Denver--just wait and see what miseries Helen Van Slyke has in store for you when your three middle-aged daughters, each a spectacular case of arrested development, come home for the big celebration. Fiftyish Fran, that cynical continental sophisticate and veteran of three marriages, is up to her old tricks: picking up a bartender for a one-night stand, then recapturing her high school boyfriend (causing his flaky wife to kill herself). Poor passive Allie, who long ago gave up her out-of-wedlock child and married a hideous wife-beater and snob from Boston, has a reunion with her childhood Romeo (they finally meet their beloved illegitimate, who coincidentally has been looking for them) and decides to start a new life--only to be raped and killed. And easygoing, fortyish Barbara, longtime mistress of a married congressman, is traumatically, selflessly trying to end the affair; it's standing in the way of his career. Add in Allie's homosexual son, papa Sam's bad heart and puritanical attitudes, not to mention a whole mess of sibling bitchery--and the Daltons are in for page upon page of guilt, anger, aching hearts, wringing hands, and abysmal writing. ""But it was for Frances that the director of our destinies reserved the moments of terrible tension which ultimately would propel her down a predetermined path of reckless destruction."" The usual teabag Tempest. . . As You Slyke It?

About this title

About the Author:

Before there was Danielle Steel and Barbara Taylor Bradford, there was Helen Van Slyke. A cosmetics and fashion company executive in her early career, she had her first novel published by Doubleday when she was in her fifties. She followed that with a string of international best-selling novels with strong women as protagonists. Each heroine must go on her own journey for happiness. These books won her a popular following among millions of readers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Not Avail
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0446312789
• ISBN 13: 9780446312783
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback