| Passing on Contributor(s): Lively, Penelope (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802136265 ISBN-13: 9780802136268 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1999 Annotation: Two children are left to face the ramifications of the emotional hold their mother had on their lives for many years, and learn to accept what has therefore been lost. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - Marriage & Divorce - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.55" W x 8.24" (0.56 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Booker-Prize winning author Penelope Lively is that rare writer who goes from strength to strength in book after perfectly assured book. In Passing On, she applies her distinctive insight and consummate artistry to the subtle story of a domineering and manipulative mother's legacy to her children. With their mother's death, Helen and Edward, both middle-aged and both unmarried, are left to face the ramifications of their mother's hold on their lives for all of these years. Helen and Edward slowly learn to accept what has been lost in their own lives and embrace what can yet be retrieved. The richest and most rewarding of her novels. - The Washington Post Book World |