The World Against Her Skin
John Thorndike
The World Against Her Skin
The World Against Her Skin
John Thorndike
Descripción
Virginia and Joe Thorndike have been married for twenty-two years, and now she's in love with a surgeon thirteen years her junior. She leaves her husband and flies to Miami to start living with Rich Villamano, but there he tells her he has changed his mind and they must go their own ways. In an instant their four-year affair is over. She takes off in his car, heading north with no luggage, no hope or destination. She buys a bottle of gin and drinks it straight. Afraid that she'll kill herself or someone else on the road, she abandons the car, flies to New York and takes an airport hotel room. She has no home and nowhere to go.
In this biographical novel, much is remembered and much imagined. Flashbacks from Virginia's youth expose the sexual abuse by her father, an affair with her high school diving coach, and her marriage to a jealous first husband. Virginia's troubles echo the plight of both Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, in this fearless book about families, love and loss.
Detalles
| Formato | Tapa suave |
| Número de Páginas | 306 |
| Lenguaje | Inglés |
| Editorial | Beck & Branch |
| Fecha de Publicación | 2022-05-08 |
| Dimensiones | 8.5" x 5.5" x 0.69" pulgadas |
| Letra Grande | No |
| Con Ilustraciones | No |
| Temas | Familia |
Acerca del Autor
Thorndike, John
John Thorndike grew up in New England, graduated from Harvard, took an MA from Columbia, then lit out for Latin America. He spent two years in the Peace Corps in El Salvador and two more, with his wife and child, on a backcountry farm in Chile. Eventually he settled with his son in Athens, Ohio, where for ten years his day job was farming. Then it was construction. His first two books were novels, Anna Delaney's Child and The Potato Baron, followed by a memoir, Another Way Home, about his wife's schizophrenia and his life as a single father. A second memoir, The Last of His Mind, describes his father's year-long descent into Alzheimer's, and was a Washington Post Best Book of 2009. The next novel told the story of a young American photographer and a comandante from the Cuban Revolution, Camilo Cienfuegos. A Hundred Fires in Cuba was given a Best Indies Fiction Award by Kirkus Reviews. The World Against Her Skin is Thorndike's most recent work. There may be a sequel.Garantía & Otros
| Garantía: | 30 dias por defectos de fabrica |
| Peso: | 0.39 kg |
| SKU: | 9780999445747 |
| Publicado en Unimart.com: | 30/12/23 |
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