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One True Thing (1996)
~EN PB USISBN: 9780099527213 bzw. 0099527219, vermutlich in Englisch, Arrow Books, Taschenbuch, gebraucht, guter Zustand.
Lieferung aus: Neuseeland, Versandkosten nach: DEU.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, bookexpress.co.nz.
Arrow Books. Good. 5.08 x 0.83 x 7.8 inches. Paperback. 1996. 256 pages. Cover worn. The breathtaking novel from the Pulitze r Prize-winning author of Thinking Out Loud, and Black and Blue - - Now a major motion picture from Universal Pictures. Ellen Guld en is in jail, accused of the mercy killing of her mother. She SA ys she didn't do it; she thinks she knows who did. When Ellen l earns of her mother Kate's cancer, the disease is already far adv anced. Her father insists that Ellen quit her job and come home t o take care of her, and as Ellen begins to spend her days with Ka te, she learns many surprising things, about herself, her mother, and the life choices they both made. But as Kate's illness progr esses, and her pain increases, so do the dosages of morphine. And so does Ellen's belief that her mother's suffering is unendurabl e.... Widely admired for her intelligence, humor and insight, a nd for the depth of her perceptions about the public and private lives of ordinary people, Quindlen writes masterfully, and with g reat sophistication and grace about love and death, sexuality and betrayal, the triangles within a family, identity, growth, and c hange. Exploring the ambiguities that make up marriage, character , family, and fate, One True Thing takes each of us to the myster ies at the heart of the person we think we are, of who and what w e know. Editorial Reviews Review One True Thing is a film starring Meryl Streep as the cancer-stricken homemaker moth er, Renee Zellweger as the daughter who quits her top-dog job to care for her, and William Hurt as the chilly professor who lets t he women in the family do the heavy emotional lifting dying requi res. But the real star of the project remains former New York Tim es everyday-life columnist Anna Quindlen, who quit her top-dog jo b to write novels (and who took time off from college to nurse he r own dying mother). Quindlen hit a nerve with One True Thing, w hich captures an experience seldom dealt with in popular culture. (One exception: the sensitive 1996 film with Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio of the play Marvin's Room.) Though the heroine of One T rue Thing, Ellen Gulden, is a golden girl with two brothers who'l l lose her career the instant she steps off the fast track, socie ty concurs with her dad, who says, It seems to me another woman i s what's wanted here. The book is a mother-daughter tale that sh ould please fans of, say, The Joy Luck Club. It's not flashy, but it has a deep feel for the way children often discover, just bef ore it's too late, who their parents really are. Our parents are never people to us, Ellen writes, they're always character traits .... There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat. The mercy-killing subplot isn't grip ping, but the palpable sense of deepening family intimacy certain ly is. --Tim Appelo --This text refers to an out of print or unav ailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly Quindlen's story of a woman accused of helping her mortally ill mother die spent seven weeks on PW's bestseller list Copyright 1995 Reed Bu siness Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From the Inside Flap A mothe r. A daughter. A shattering choice. From Anna Quindlen, bestsell ing author of Black and Blue, comes a novel of life, love and eve ryday acts of mercy. A triumph. --San Francisco Chronicle From the Paperback edition. --This text refers to an out of print or u navailable edition of this title. From the Publisher Fiercely co mpassionate and frank...conveys a world so out of kilter and so l ike ours that its readers are likely to feel both exhilarated and unnerved by its accuracy. --Elle A masterpiece. --Tulsa World Provocative...We leave One True Thing stimulated and challenged, more thoughtful than when we began. --Los Angeles Times It is si mply impossible to forget. --Alice Hoffman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Book list Considering her Pulitzer Prize-winning op-ed columns for the New York Times (collected in the invigorating Thinking Out Loud ), it's no surprise that Quindlen's fiction has a strong moral co mponent. The question posed in this tilt-a-world tale of self-sac rifice, grief, suspense, and revelation is whether or not a perso n has the right to die. And, further, how on earth can a person c onvince themselves to end the life of a loved one, no matter how awful their suffering? The novel begins with a deceptively hubris tic prologue in which our narrator, 24-year-old Ellen Gulden, des cribes what it's like to be in jail charged with killing her dyin g mother. Then we get the real story, every painful, ironic bit o f it. Fresh out of Harvard and eager to prove herself as a journa list, Ellen is completely unprepared for her rather elusive and d ismissive father's request that she move back home and nurse her mother, who, at age 46, has suddenly become terribly Ill. Ellen h as always been a daddy's girl, dismissing her homey mother as an anachronism. Now, as she enters her mother's world just as her mo ther is about to exit it, everything she's ever assumed about her family and, indeed, life itself is challenged. It isn't easy rea ding about how cancer ravages Ellen's once radiant and ever-nurtu ring mother, but it is eminently satisfying to witness Ellen's tr ansformation from an often glib, emotionally suppressed overachie ver into a woman who begins to fathom the meaning of love. Quindl en also gets in some good jabs at the media for its feverish appe tite for easy scandal and its irrelevance to the truth manifest i n genuine tragedies. Donna Seaman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. About the Author An na Quindlen is the author of three bestselling novels, Object Les sons, One True Thing, and Black and Blue. Her New York Times colu mn Public and Private won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, and a selecti on of these columns was published as Thinking Out Loud. She is al so the author of a collection of her Life in the 30's columns, Li ving Out Loud, and two children's books, The Tree That Came to St ay and Happily Ever After. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review Fiercely compassion ate and frank...conveys a world so out of kilter and so like ours that its readers are likely to feel both exhilarated and unnerve d by its accuracy. --Elle A masterpiece. --Tulsa World Provocat ive...We leave One True Thing stimulated and challenged, more tho ughtful than when we began. --Los Angeles Times It is simply imp ossible to forget. --Alice Hoffman From the Paperback edition. - -This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of th is title. From Kirkus Reviews If literature were judged solely b y its ability to elicit strong emotions, columnist-cum-novelist Q uindlen (Object Lessons, 1991) would win another Pulitzer for thi s wrenching, albeit flawed fiction. After a short prologue about the time she spent in jail, accused of having killed her mother, Katherine, Ellen Gulden quickly skips back to her story's beginni ng, when the 24-year-old's father guilts her into putting her hig h-powered New York writing career on hold and moving back to Lang horne, the small college town where she grew up, to care for her mother, who has cancer. Cerebral, high-achieving Ellen has always been more her father's daughter; he is the English department ch airman, while Mom is a Martha Stewart-perfect homemaker, the type of woman who canes her own chairs. But she and Ellen begin to in fluence each other, and it becomes clear that Katherine is attemp ting to take care of unfinished business in her characteristicall y graceful way, even as her body rapidly deteriorates. With this relationship Quindlen shines, capturing perfectly the casual inti macy that mothers and daughters share, as well as the friction be tween women of two very different generations. Male characters ar e sometimes less successful. Ellen's father is so cold that it's hard to fathom how her gentle mother has stood him for so many ye ars, and Ellen seems a little smart and a little old to still be reeling from the discovery that Dad isn't perfect. Even more unco nvincing is Ellen's long-time boyfriend, ruthless and uncaring Jo nathan Beltzer. These problems are generally surmounted by Quindl en's practiced storytelling. By the time Katherine's autopsy reve als that she died of a morphine overdose, the jailhouse prologue has almost been forgotten, so the clever mystery ending (complete with satisfying twist) is an added bonus. When Quindlen gets it right--which is often--she places herself in the league of Mary G ordon and Sue Miller. -- Copyright ®1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or una vailable edition of this title. From Library Journal The second novel by this Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist follows the psycho logical travails of Ellen Gulden, who against all personal inclin ations returns home to care for her dying mother, Kate, and event ually finds herself accused of mercy-killing. Ellen, an intellige nt though not particularly warm person, has spent her life earnin g her professor father's approval. After achieving high school va ledictorian and Harvard honors, she aspires to advance her New Yo rk career. At her father's insistence, however, she leaves her jo b and takes on the role of nurse and homemaker. Through long hour s as companion to Kate, she discovers the real value of her mothe r's life. As in Object Lessons (LJ 3/1/91), Quindlen's gifts for characterization and clear description provide insight into famil ies and the human heart. Recommended for all fiction collections. --Sheila Riley, Smithsonian Inst. Libs., Washington, D.C. Copyri ght 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. .
Von Händler/Antiquariat, bookexpress.co.nz.
Arrow Books. Good. 5.08 x 0.83 x 7.8 inches. Paperback. 1996. 256 pages. Cover worn. The breathtaking novel from the Pulitze r Prize-winning author of Thinking Out Loud, and Black and Blue - - Now a major motion picture from Universal Pictures. Ellen Guld en is in jail, accused of the mercy killing of her mother. She SA ys she didn't do it; she thinks she knows who did. When Ellen l earns of her mother Kate's cancer, the disease is already far adv anced. Her father insists that Ellen quit her job and come home t o take care of her, and as Ellen begins to spend her days with Ka te, she learns many surprising things, about herself, her mother, and the life choices they both made. But as Kate's illness progr esses, and her pain increases, so do the dosages of morphine. And so does Ellen's belief that her mother's suffering is unendurabl e.... Widely admired for her intelligence, humor and insight, a nd for the depth of her perceptions about the public and private lives of ordinary people, Quindlen writes masterfully, and with g reat sophistication and grace about love and death, sexuality and betrayal, the triangles within a family, identity, growth, and c hange. Exploring the ambiguities that make up marriage, character , family, and fate, One True Thing takes each of us to the myster ies at the heart of the person we think we are, of who and what w e know. Editorial Reviews Review One True Thing is a film starring Meryl Streep as the cancer-stricken homemaker moth er, Renee Zellweger as the daughter who quits her top-dog job to care for her, and William Hurt as the chilly professor who lets t he women in the family do the heavy emotional lifting dying requi res. But the real star of the project remains former New York Tim es everyday-life columnist Anna Quindlen, who quit her top-dog jo b to write novels (and who took time off from college to nurse he r own dying mother). Quindlen hit a nerve with One True Thing, w hich captures an experience seldom dealt with in popular culture. (One exception: the sensitive 1996 film with Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio of the play Marvin's Room.) Though the heroine of One T rue Thing, Ellen Gulden, is a golden girl with two brothers who'l l lose her career the instant she steps off the fast track, socie ty concurs with her dad, who says, It seems to me another woman i s what's wanted here. The book is a mother-daughter tale that sh ould please fans of, say, The Joy Luck Club. It's not flashy, but it has a deep feel for the way children often discover, just bef ore it's too late, who their parents really are. Our parents are never people to us, Ellen writes, they're always character traits .... There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat. The mercy-killing subplot isn't grip ping, but the palpable sense of deepening family intimacy certain ly is. --Tim Appelo --This text refers to an out of print or unav ailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly Quindlen's story of a woman accused of helping her mortally ill mother die spent seven weeks on PW's bestseller list Copyright 1995 Reed Bu siness Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From the Inside Flap A mothe r. A daughter. A shattering choice. From Anna Quindlen, bestsell ing author of Black and Blue, comes a novel of life, love and eve ryday acts of mercy. A triumph. --San Francisco Chronicle From the Paperback edition. --This text refers to an out of print or u navailable edition of this title. From the Publisher Fiercely co mpassionate and frank...conveys a world so out of kilter and so l ike ours that its readers are likely to feel both exhilarated and unnerved by its accuracy. --Elle A masterpiece. --Tulsa World Provocative...We leave One True Thing stimulated and challenged, more thoughtful than when we began. --Los Angeles Times It is si mply impossible to forget. --Alice Hoffman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Book list Considering her Pulitzer Prize-winning op-ed columns for the New York Times (collected in the invigorating Thinking Out Loud ), it's no surprise that Quindlen's fiction has a strong moral co mponent. The question posed in this tilt-a-world tale of self-sac rifice, grief, suspense, and revelation is whether or not a perso n has the right to die. And, further, how on earth can a person c onvince themselves to end the life of a loved one, no matter how awful their suffering? The novel begins with a deceptively hubris tic prologue in which our narrator, 24-year-old Ellen Gulden, des cribes what it's like to be in jail charged with killing her dyin g mother. Then we get the real story, every painful, ironic bit o f it. Fresh out of Harvard and eager to prove herself as a journa list, Ellen is completely unprepared for her rather elusive and d ismissive father's request that she move back home and nurse her mother, who, at age 46, has suddenly become terribly Ill. Ellen h as always been a daddy's girl, dismissing her homey mother as an anachronism. Now, as she enters her mother's world just as her mo ther is about to exit it, everything she's ever assumed about her family and, indeed, life itself is challenged. It isn't easy rea ding about how cancer ravages Ellen's once radiant and ever-nurtu ring mother, but it is eminently satisfying to witness Ellen's tr ansformation from an often glib, emotionally suppressed overachie ver into a woman who begins to fathom the meaning of love. Quindl en also gets in some good jabs at the media for its feverish appe tite for easy scandal and its irrelevance to the truth manifest i n genuine tragedies. Donna Seaman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. About the Author An na Quindlen is the author of three bestselling novels, Object Les sons, One True Thing, and Black and Blue. Her New York Times colu mn Public and Private won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, and a selecti on of these columns was published as Thinking Out Loud. She is al so the author of a collection of her Life in the 30's columns, Li ving Out Loud, and two children's books, The Tree That Came to St ay and Happily Ever After. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review Fiercely compassion ate and frank...conveys a world so out of kilter and so like ours that its readers are likely to feel both exhilarated and unnerve d by its accuracy. --Elle A masterpiece. --Tulsa World Provocat ive...We leave One True Thing stimulated and challenged, more tho ughtful than when we began. --Los Angeles Times It is simply imp ossible to forget. --Alice Hoffman From the Paperback edition. - -This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of th is title. From Kirkus Reviews If literature were judged solely b y its ability to elicit strong emotions, columnist-cum-novelist Q uindlen (Object Lessons, 1991) would win another Pulitzer for thi s wrenching, albeit flawed fiction. After a short prologue about the time she spent in jail, accused of having killed her mother, Katherine, Ellen Gulden quickly skips back to her story's beginni ng, when the 24-year-old's father guilts her into putting her hig h-powered New York writing career on hold and moving back to Lang horne, the small college town where she grew up, to care for her mother, who has cancer. Cerebral, high-achieving Ellen has always been more her father's daughter; he is the English department ch airman, while Mom is a Martha Stewart-perfect homemaker, the type of woman who canes her own chairs. But she and Ellen begin to in fluence each other, and it becomes clear that Katherine is attemp ting to take care of unfinished business in her characteristicall y graceful way, even as her body rapidly deteriorates. With this relationship Quindlen shines, capturing perfectly the casual inti macy that mothers and daughters share, as well as the friction be tween women of two very different generations. Male characters ar e sometimes less successful. Ellen's father is so cold that it's hard to fathom how her gentle mother has stood him for so many ye ars, and Ellen seems a little smart and a little old to still be reeling from the discovery that Dad isn't perfect. Even more unco nvincing is Ellen's long-time boyfriend, ruthless and uncaring Jo nathan Beltzer. These problems are generally surmounted by Quindl en's practiced storytelling. By the time Katherine's autopsy reve als that she died of a morphine overdose, the jailhouse prologue has almost been forgotten, so the clever mystery ending (complete with satisfying twist) is an added bonus. When Quindlen gets it right--which is often--she places herself in the league of Mary G ordon and Sue Miller. -- Copyright ®1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or una vailable edition of this title. From Library Journal The second novel by this Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist follows the psycho logical travails of Ellen Gulden, who against all personal inclin ations returns home to care for her dying mother, Kate, and event ually finds herself accused of mercy-killing. Ellen, an intellige nt though not particularly warm person, has spent her life earnin g her professor father's approval. After achieving high school va ledictorian and Harvard honors, she aspires to advance her New Yo rk career. At her father's insistence, however, she leaves her jo b and takes on the role of nurse and homemaker. Through long hour s as companion to Kate, she discovers the real value of her mothe r's life. As in Object Lessons (LJ 3/1/91), Quindlen's gifts for characterization and clear description provide insight into famil ies and the human heart. Recommended for all fiction collections. --Sheila Riley, Smithsonian Inst. Libs., Washington, D.C. Copyri ght 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. .
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ONE TRUE THING (1996)
EN PB USISBN: 9780099527213 bzw. 0099527219, in Englisch, ARROW, Taschenbuch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, Versandkosten nach: USA.
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ARROW, 1996. Paperback. Used; Very Good. Number of pages: 256. Condition: Very Good. May show some slight signs of wear. Ships from the UK within 24 hours. Your purchase helps support authors through the Book Author Resale Right. Bookbarn International Inventory #146047.
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ARROW, 1996. Paperback. Used; Very Good. Number of pages: 256. Condition: Very Good. May show some slight signs of wear. Ships from the UK within 24 hours. Your purchase helps support authors through the Book Author Resale Right. Bookbarn International Inventory #146047.
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One True Thing (1995)
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A mother. A daughter. A shattering choice. From Anna Quindlen, bestselling author of Black and Blue, comes a novel of life, love and everyday acts of mercy. "A triumph." --San Francisco Chronicle From the Paperback edition., Paperback, Ausgabe: New Ed, Format: Import, Label: ARROW BOOKS LTD, ARROW BOOKS LTD, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1995, Studio: ARROW BOOKS LTD, Verkaufsrang: 11515249.
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A mother. A daughter. A shattering choice. From Anna Quindlen, bestselling author of Black and Blue, comes a novel of life, love and everyday acts of mercy. "A triumph." --San Francisco Chronicle From the Paperback edition., Paperback, Ausgabe: New Ed, Format: Import, Label: ARROW BOOKS LTD, ARROW BOOKS LTD, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1995, Studio: ARROW BOOKS LTD, Verkaufsrang: 11515249.
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~EN PB USISBN: 9780099527213 bzw. 0099527219, vermutlich in Englisch, Arrow Books Ltd, Taschenbuch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, zzgl. Versandkosten, Versandgebiet: EUR.
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