While I Was Gone (Oprah's Book Club) Hardback Book Sue Miller First Edition

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Type
Novel
Narrative Type
Fiction
Features
Dust Jacket
Original Language
English
Edition
First Edition
ISBN
9780375411786
Book Title
While I Was Gone
Book Series
Oprah's Book Club Ser.
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length
9.5 in
Publication Year
2000
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
Sue Miller
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Thrillers / Suspense, General, Mystery & Detective / General
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Width
6.6 in
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Category

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
037541178X
ISBN-13
9780375411786
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8038313770

Product Key Features

Book Title
While I Was Gone
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / Suspense, General, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Fiction
Author
Sue Miller
Book Series
Oprah's Book Club Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-014211
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Riveting . . . The narrative pacing is masterly, building tension even in the most psychologically subtle passages. . . . While I Was Gone celebrate[s] what is impulsive in human nature." --CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT    The New York Times "MILLER WEAVES HER THEMES OF SECRECY, BETRAYAL AND FORGIVENESS INTO A NARRATIVE THAT SHINES." --Time "FASCINATING . . . A NEW NOVEL OF GREAT INTEGRITY AND POWER . . . Despite having a loving husband, three vivacious daughters, a beautiful home in rural Massachusetts, and satisfaction in her work, Jo Becker's mind is invaded by a persistent restlessness. Then, an old roommate reappears to bring back Jo's memories of her early 20s. . . . Her obsession with that period of her life and with the crime that concluded it eventually estrange Jo from everything she holds dear, causing her to tell lie after lie as she is pulled closer to this man from her past--and to a horrible secret." --Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel "MARVELOUS . . . POIGNANT . . . POWERFUL." --Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer "A BEAUTIFUL AND FRIGHTENING BOOK . . . MANY READERS WILL FIND IT DIFFICULT TO FORGET. . . . It swoops gracefully between the past and the present, between a woman's complex feelings about her husband and her equally complex fantasies--and fears--about another man. . . . I can think of few contemporary novelists--John Updike and Frederick Buechner are two others--who write so well about the trials of faith." --The New York Times Book Review "QUIETLY GRIPPING . . . Jo shines steadily as the flawed and thoroughly modern heroine. As in her 1986 novel, The Good Mother, Miller shows how impulses can fracture the family." --USA Today
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Synopsis
A decade ago she put a face on every mother's worst nightmare with her phenomenal best-sellerThe Good Mother.Now, Sue Miller delivers a spellbinding novel of love and betrayal that explores what it means to be a good wife. In the summer of 1968, Jo Becker ran out on the marriage and the life her parents wanted for her, and escaped--for one beautiful, idyllic year--into a life that was bohemian and romantic, living under an assumed name in a rambling group house in Cambridge. It was a time of limitless possibility, but it ended in a single instant when Jo returned home one night to find her best friend lying dead in a pool of blood on the living room floor.   Now Jo has everything she's ever wanted: a veterinary practice she loves, a devoted husband, three grown daughters, a beautiful Massachusetts farmhouse. And if occasionally she feels a stranger to herself and wonders what happened to the freedom she once felt, or how she came to be the wife, mother, and doctor her neighbors know and trust--if at times she feels as if her whole life is vanishing behind her as she's living it--she need only look at her daughters or her husband, Daniel, to recall the satisfactions of family and community and marriage. But when an old housemate settles in her small town, the fabric of Jo's life begins to unravel: seduced again by the enticing possibility of another self and another life, she begins a dangerous flirtation that returns her to the darkest moment of her past and imperils all she loves. While I Was Goneis an exquisitely suspenseful novel about how quickly and casually a marriage can be destroyed, how a good wife can find herself placing all she holds dear at risk. In expert strokes, Sue Miller captures the precariousness of even the strongest ties, the ease with which we abandon each other, and our need to be forgiven. An extraordinary book, her best, from a beloved American writer.

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