Blessings: A Novel - Hardcover

Quindlen, Anna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375502238 ISBN 13: 9780375502231

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2002

Synopsis

When a teenage couple abandons their baby at the gate of the estate owned by Lydia Blessing, Skip Cuddy, the estate caretaker, decides to raise the child himself, a decision that has a profound effect on the lives of everyone in the community, in a story of love, secrets, and redemption by the author of Black and Blue. 250,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"We are so lucky to have Anna Quindlen in our literary lives. With her big heart and her amazing humanity she reminds us all of our blessings" (Alice Hoffman)

"Qualities and shades of love are this writer's strong suit, and she has the unusual talent for writing about them with so much truth and heart that one is carried away on a tidal wave of involvement and concern." (Elizabeth Jane Howard)

"Intelligence, clarity and heartrending directness" (Newsday)

"The honest of her storytelling is exemplary" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Quindlen writes with power and grace" (The Boston Globe)

From the Publisher:

In the bestselling tradition of Anne Tyler, Blessings explores the power of love as a catalyst for change and redemption.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375502238
• ISBN 13: 9780375502231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 226