| Attachment Contributor(s): Fonseca, Isabel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307386511 ISBN-13: 9780307386519 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2009 Annotation: Ariveting first novel that reaches across the Indian Ocean to London and New York, and into the most confounding precincts of the human heart. Jean Hubbard is a health columnist; her husband, Mark, a successful advertising executive. After more than twenty years together, they revel in a sabbatical on a remote tropical island. But when Jean discovers a salacious love letter addressed to Mark, she realizes that she has misdiagnosed some acute pathologies in her own life. The long idyll of their mutual ease is over -- but a more vivid and compelling quest has just begun. Assured, funny, tender, and provocative, "Attachment "is unflinching in its depiction of desire and the nature of love. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.22" W x 8.02" (0.53 lbs) 320 pages |
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| Publisher Description: After more than twenty years of life in London, Jean and Mark Hubbard decamp to a remote tropical island in the Indian Ocean. But when Jean, a health columnist, discovers a salacious love letter addressed to her husband, she realizes that she has misdiagnosed some acute pathologies in her own life. The long idyll of their mutual ease is over - and a new quest has just begun. Looking for answers, Jean goes undercover with a surreptitious correspondence that propels her on to alarming and illuminating adventures of her own. Isabel Fonseca explores the impulses that color and disrupt our lives even as they reveal, ever more clearly, the nature of love. |