Fortunate Lives

Robb Forman Dew

ISBN 10: 0316890685 / ISBN 13: 9780316890687

Published by Back Bay Books, 2003

About this Item

FORTUNATE LIVES reprises the Howells family, who first appeared in DALE LOVES SOPHIE TO DEATH and tells the story of another fateful summer of transition for the family. The Howells family are revisited in the small academic town of West Bradford, Ma in the summer of 1991. Dinah and Martin's middle son Toby died in an automobile crash six years earlier. David, 18, is preparing to go to Harvard and Sarah is now 13. A young woman, Netta Breckenridge, enters the family's lives and creates a fragile domesticity for the Howells.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fortunate Lives
• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316890685
• ISBN 13: 9780316890687
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The Howells family are revisited in the summer of 1991. David, 18, is preparing to go to Harvard and Sarah is now 13. A young woman, Netta Breckenridge, enters the family's lives and creates a fragile domesticity for the Howells.

About the Author

Robb Forman Dew was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, and grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. For the past thirty years she has lived in Williamstown, MA, where she lives with her husband, who is professor of history at Williams College.

The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Dew is the author of the novels Dale Loves Sophie to Death, for which she received the National Book Award; The Time of Her Life; Fortunate Lives; The Evidence Against Her; and, most recently, The Truth of the Matter; as well as a memoir, The Family Heart.