| Oystercatchers Contributor(s): Fletcher, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393331989 ISBN-13: 9780393331981 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2008 Annotation: From the Whitbread Award-winning author of "Eve Green" comes this lyrical novel that probes two sisters struggle with envy, loneliness, and love--an emotion they crave and simultaneously fear, but ultimately recognize it as the greatest force of all. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 4.98" W x 7.8" (0.65 lbs) 354 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sixteen-year-old Amy lies in a coma. Moira, eleven years older, spends the evenings at her sister's bedside, telling the story her own life--her secrets, her shameful actions, and her link to the accident that has brought Amy to this bed. In her riveting (Library Journal) second novel, Susan Fletcher probes the troubled bond between two sisters: how their lives are undone by the tumultuous forces of envy and loneliness and, in the end, how love emerges as the greatest force of all. Reading group guide included. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fletcher, Susan: - Susan Fletcher is the author of Eve Green, which won the Whitbread Award for First Novel, Oystercatchers, and The Highland Witch. She lives in the United Kingdom. |