Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

At The Breakers (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A woman in trouble tries to change her life in a "beautifully written" novel about "the complex demands and joys and risks of all kinds of love" (Kim Edwards, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter). Jo Sinclair, a single parent of four children, has fled an abusive relationship, winding up in Sea Cove, New Jersey, in front of The Breakers, a salty old hotel in the process of renovation. In this unlikely setting, Jo is intent on finding a way to renovate herself, to reclaim the promising life that was derailed by pregnancy when she was fourteen. She impulsively convinces the owner to give her a job painting the rooms and settles in with her youngest child, thirteen-year-old Nick. A grand cast of characters wanders through this little world, among them Iris Zephyr, the hotel's ninety-two-year-old permanent boarder; Charlie, a noble mixed breed dog; Wendy, Jo's tough eighteen-year-old daughter, who has suffered most from her mother's past mistakes; and Marco, the nearby gas station owner, who seems likely to become her mother's next mistake. But soon Jo's former teacher, a well-known and exuberant poet, arrives on the premises to stir everything up, including Jo's yearning for a life of art and committed love. At The Breakers is a deeply felt and beautifully written novel about forgiveness and reconciliation by the acclaimed author of Come and Go, Molly Snow. Its heroine, put through the fire, comes out with a chance for happiness-if she can muster the faith, courage, and optimism to take that chance. "Incisive, witty prose." - Kirkus Reviews

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780813138992
• Artikelnr.: 38233440

Autorenporträt

Mary Ann Taylor-Hall is a recipient of the Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" award. and the author of How She Knows What She Knows About Yo-yos (Sarabande), which received Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Award, and Come and Go, Molly Snow (Norton). She is the recipient of a PEN/Syndicated Fiction Award and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kentucky Arts Council.