Still Life With Bread Crumbs

Autor: Quindlen, Anna

Editorial: Ballantine Books

Lenguaje: Inglés Internacional

ISBN13: 9780812976892

Reseña: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A superb love story from Anna Quindlen the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rise and Shine Blessings and A Short Guide to a Happy Life Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent her bank balance shaky and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life. Brilliantly written powerfully observed Still Life with Bread Crumbs is a deeply moving and often very funny story of unexpected love and a stunningly crafted journey into the life of a woman her heart her mind her days as she discovers that life is a story with many levels a story that is longer and more exciting than she ever imagined. Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Readers Circle for author chats and more. There comes a moment in every novelists career when she . . . ventures into new territory breaking free into a marriage of tone and style of plot and characterization thats utterly her own. Anna Quindlens marvelous romantic comedy of manners is just such a book. . . . Taken as a whole Quindlens writings represent a generous and moving interrogation of womens experience across the lines of class and race. [Still Life with Bread Crumbs] proves all the more moving because of its light sophisticated humor. Quindlens least overtly political novel it packs perhaps the most serious punch. . . . Quindlen has delivered a novel that will have staying power all its own.--The New York Times Book Review [A] wise tale about second chances starting over and going after what is most important in life.--Minneapolis Star Tribune Quindlens astute observations . . . are the sorts of details every writer and reader lives for.--Chicago Tribune [Anna] Quindlens seventh novel offers the literary equivalent of comfort food. . . . She still has her finger firmly planted on the pulse of her generation.--NPR Enchanting . . . [The protagonists] photographs are celebrated for turning the minutiae of womens lives into unforgettable images and Quindlen does the same here with her enveloping sure-handed storytelling.--People Charming . . . a hot cup of tea of a story smooth and comforting about the vulnerabilities of growing older . . . a pleasure.--USA Today With spare elegant prose [Quindlen] crafts a poignant glimpse into the inner life of an aging woman who discovers that reality contains much more color than her own celebrated black-and-white images.--Library Journal Quindlen has always excelled at capturing telling details in a story and she does so again in this quiet powerful novel showing the charged emotions that teem beneath the surface of daily life.--Publishers Weekly Quindlen presents instantly recognizable characters who may be appealingly warm and nonthreatening but that only serves to drive home her potent message that its never too late to embrace lifes second chances.--Booklist Profound . . . engaging.--Kirkus Reviews