The Wilder Sisters - Softcover

Mapson, Jo-Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060931078 ISBN 13: 9780060931070

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2000

Synopsis

The Wilder sisters fall in love with men when they least expect it--and most need it. Rose, the older, more practical one, is a widow who lives in New Mexico and has two ungrateful kids, a bored dog, and a horse with a bad back. Lily, the younger, more daring sister, lives in Southern California, where she has put her career before everything else--including love. Lily and Rose flee to their parents' ranch, for some emotional detox. But the two haven't spoken in five long years, and spending time togther is the last thing they'd planned on. Nor had either anticipated being so actively pusued by lovestruck men. Readers will be in their corner all the way as they rediscover the bonds of sisterhood and slowly open their hearts to love.

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Review:

"A spirited romp of a novel.... Gut-busting, sometimes gut-wrenching. A companionable high desert tale for summer". -- Boston Globe

""The Wilder Sisters" is the richest, truest, funniest, sexiest, and most satisfying story about sisters I have read. The writing is luminous, the characters unforgettable, and the end brought me to tears of awe. I loved the world of the Wilder Sisters--a New Mexico filled with horses and audacious women and luscious food and superstition and saints. I longed to there myself, and felt a hollow ache when the story came to its end." -- Sara Davidson, author of "Cowboy: A Love Story" and "Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties""This fascinating fiction will make you believe in storybook endings." --"Cosmopolitan""Watch your back, Larry McMurtry....Mapson's tale of two sisters raised on a horse ranch in northern New Mexico unfolds as unhurriedly as a Hank Williams ballad and pulls you into its catchy, sometimes raw and sexy, story with ease." --"Los Angeles Times"""The Wilder Sisters" is smart and funny....I predict that this book will be passed lovingly back and forth among many women (and men who want to understand them)." --"St. Louis Post-Dispatch""A delightful fifth novel....A clean, honest, easy, unadorned tale." --"Kirkus Reviews""Mapson is a straightforward, if sassy, analyst of human relations...."The Wilder Sisters" is a spirited romp of a novel....Gut-busting, sometimes gut-wrenching. A companionable high desert tale for summer." --"Boston Globe"

About the Author:

Jo-Ann Mapson, a third generation Californian, grew up in Fullerton as a middle child with four siblings. She dropped out of college to marry, but later finished a creative writing degree at California State University, Long Beach. Following her son's birth in 1978, Mapson worked an assortment of odd jobs teaching horseback riding, cleaning houses, typing resumes, and working retail. After earning a graduate degree from Vermont College's low residency program, she taught at Orange Coast College for six years before turning to full-time writing in 1996. Mapson is the author of the acclaimed novels Shadow Ranch, Blue Rodeo, Hank Chloe, and Loving Chloe."The land is as much a character as the people," Mapson has said. Whether writing about the stark beauty of a California canyon or the poverty of an Arizona reservation, Mapson's landscapes are imbued with life. Setting her fiction in the Southwest, Mapson writes about a region that she knows well; after growing up in California and living for a time in Arizona and New Mexico, Mapson lives today in Cosa Mesa, California. She attributes her focus on setting to the influence of Wallace Stegner.Like many of her characters, Mapson has ridden horses since she was a child. She owns a 35-year-old Appaloosa and has said that she learned about writing from learning to jump her horse, Tonto. "I realized," she said, "that the same thing that had been wrong with my riding was the same thing that had been wrong with my writing. In riding there is a term called the moment of suspension, ' when you're over the fence, just hanging in the air. I had to give myself up to it, let go, trust the motion. Once I got that right, everything fell into place."

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0060931078
• ISBN 13: 9780060931070
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 386