| The Time of Her Life Contributor(s): Dew, Robb Forman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316890693 ISBN-13: 9780316890694 Publisher: Back Bay Books OUR PRICE: $21.77 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2003 Annotation: Now restored to print--the acclaimed second novel by the National Book Award--winning author of Dale Loves Sophie to Death and The Evidence Against Her. Claudia and Avery Parks, lovers since high school, are now in their thirties. Intelligent, charming, sympathetic, they seem to be the ideal couple, the perfect dinner-party guests, almost everything people should be--except responsible. They are causally yet cruelly oblivious to the ways in which their words and actions affect other people, most particularly their talented 11-year-old daughter, who suffers the misfortune of being treated by her parents not as a child but as an equal. - An engrossing domestic tale by a novelist of the first rank--an ideal selection for reading groups. - Robb Forman Dew's first novel, Dale Loves Sophie to Death, received the National Book Award in 1982. - All of Dew's fiction is now available in trade paperback from Back Bay Books. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2003269853 |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.48" W x 8.28" (0.56 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Midwest - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Geographic Orientation - Missouri - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Now restored to print--the acclaimed second novel by the National Book Award--winning author of Dale Loves Sophie to Death and The Evidence Against Her. Claudia and Avery Parks, lovers since high school, are now in their thirties. Intelligent, charming, sympathetic, they seem to be the ideal couple, the perfect dinner-party guests, almost everything people should be--except responsible. They are causally yet cruelly oblivious to the ways in which their words and actions affect other people, most particularly their talented 11-year-old daughter, who suffers the misfortune of being treated by her parents not as a child but as an equal. |