TALK BEFORE SLEEP

Berg, Elizabeth

ISBN 10: 067943299X / ISBN 13: 9780679432999

Published by Random House, New York, 1994

About this Item

First edition, hardcover. 210 pages. Fine with tail of spine bumped and corners lightly bumped, in a near fine, mylar-covered dust jacket. SIGNED (signature only) by the author on the title page. Author's third book. "What do women talk about when they know they don't have forever? They talk about what they have always talked about , only they go deeper and are more honest; with outrageous humor they try to mitigate pain.". Seller Inventory # 136881

Bibliographic Details

Title: TALK BEFORE SLEEP

Publisher: Random House, New York

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

What do women talk about when they know they don't have forever? They talk about what they have always talked about, only they go deeper and more honest: with outrageous humor they try to mitigate pain. Intimate and uncensored sharing, the kind of connection women prize, is at the heart of this deeply moving novel about the grit and power of female friends.
Ann and Ruth have always talked as only great friends can--honestly, and about everything: husbands and marriages, sex lives and children, their work, their hopes, their disappointments, and their dreams. For Ann, cautious and conventional, her closeness to the outspoken and eccentric Ruth brings about discovery and liberation, a chance to say whatever she wants, and, most important, under the insistent tutelage of Ruth, to become herself. Over the years, the women have shared recipes, quilting patterns, child care, delicate and dangerous secrets. Each rests secure in the knowledge that they will be friends forever. Then something happens that will change their lives forever, and the women begin to share something more profound than either of them might have predicted.
Written with an unerring ear for how women talk, laugh, and cry together, and with a gift for capturing the uniqueness of personality, Talk Before Sleep is sure to find a place in readers' hearts.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover:

"You'll want to give a copy to  every good woman friend you have." -- The Charlotte Observer

"Entertaining, finely crafted Elizabeth Berg tackles serious  issues with grace" -- San Francisco Chronicle

"Tender and irreverant by turns, it offers mature intelligent and  buoyant spirit, like a very good  friend." -- Houston Post


From the Paperback edition.