Colombian Peso
Product Overview
Autor: Steel, Danielle
Editorial: Random House
Lenguaje: Inglés Internacional
ISBN13: 9780385340304
Reseña: In this beguiling new novel Danielle Steel tells the story of three very different people each of whom on the same day reaches a crucial turning point in life--a rite both bittersweet and full of hope a time to blow out the candles say goodbye to the past and make a wish for the future. Valerie Wyatt is the queen of gracious living and the arbiter of taste. Since her long-ago divorce shes worked hard to reach the pinnacle of her profession and to create a camera-ready life in her Fifth Avenue penthouse. So why is she so depressed? All the hours with her personal trainer the careful work of New Yorks best hairdressers cosmetic surgeons and her own God-given bone structure and great looks cant fudge the truth or her lies about it: Valerie is turning sixty. Valeries daughter April has no love life no rest and no prospect of that changing in the foreseeable future. Her popular one-of-a-kind restaurant in downtown New York where she is chef and owner consumes every ounce of her attention and energy. Ready or not though Aprils life is about to change in a tumultuous transformation that begins the morning it hits her: Shes thirty. And what does she have to show for it? A restaurant no man no kids. Jack Adams once threw a football like a guided missile. Twelve years after retiring from the NFL he is the most charismatic sports analyst on TV a man who has his pick of the most desirable twentysomething women. But after a particularly memorable Halloween party Jack wakes up on his fiftieth birthday his back thrown out of whack feeling every year his age. A terrifying act of violence an out-of-the-blue blessing and two extremely unlikely love affairs soon turn lives inside out and upside down. In a novel brimming with warmth and insight beginning on one birthday and ending on another Valerie April and Jack discover that life itself can be a celebration--and that its greatest gifts are always a surprise.
