Bright Angel Time - Hardcover
This magical novel about three daughters struggling with divorce, dislocation, and the radical new lifestyle their mother adopts introduces an exceptional new author. Bold and wonderfully written, Bright Angel Time is rich in original imagery and humor, with a strong and visceral sense of place.
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"Mom learned to fall backward into the arms of strangers without hesitating or looking over her shoulder. She learned to fall freely, with her muscles relaxed and her mind open..." So begins Martha McPhee's first novel, Bright Angel Time, a story rooted in the freewheeling, free-falling decade of the 1970s. For Kate, the tale's narrator, life starts to crumble the day of the first moon landing. That is when her father takes off with his lover and leaves his family high and dry. Soon after, Kate's mother, Eve, falls in love with Anton, a man with a smarmy charisma that draws one in even as it invites second thoughts. A hippie pied piper, Anton lures Eve and her three daughters into a cross-country odyssey from New Jersey to a commune in Big Sur. There his own children from a previous marriage join the menagerie.
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McPhee captures the era when women's liberation mixed with notions of free love led to sexual license, and Gestalt therapy promised enlightenment. Seen through the eyes of Kate and her two sisters, this is not so much a time of freedom as one of confusion, adult carelessness, and neglect. Kate's steely-eyed view of her parents' world, combined with McPhee's brilliant imagery and deft characterization, makes this '70s-era tale a book for the '90s.
Published in hardcover by Random House, June 1997, 0679450084
Published in hardcover by Random House Value Publishing, June 1999, 0517454556
Published in paperback by Harcourt, February 1999, 0156005867
Published in hardcover by Random House Value Publishing, June 1999, 0517454556
Published in paperback by Harcourt, February 1999, 0156005867
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- PublisherRandom House
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0679450084
- ISBN 13 9780679450085
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages244
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