Blessings: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle) - Softcover

Quindlen, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812969812 ISBN 13: 9780812969818

Publisher: Random House Group, 2003

Synopsis

Blessings, the bestselling novel by the author of Black and Blue, One True Thing, Object Lessons, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life, begins when, late at night, a teenage couple drives up to the estate owned by Lydia Blessing and leaves a box.

In this instant, the world of the estate called Blessings is changed forever. The story of Skip Cuddy, the Blessings caretaker, who finds a baby asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep her, and of matriarch Lydia Blessing, who, for her own reasons, decides to help him, Blessings explores how the secrets of the past affect decisions and lives in the present; what makes a person, a life, legitimate or illegitimate, and who decides; the unique resources people find in themselves and in a community. This is a powerful novel of love, redemption, and personal change by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about whom The Washington Post Book World said, "Quindlen knows that all the things we ever will be can be found in some forgotten fragment of family."

About this title

Review:

"A polished gem of a novel...lovingly crafted, beautifully written."
--The Miami Herald

"A well-told story of love and redemption."
--The Washington Post Book World

"[A] richly imagined novel of the transforming power of love."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Readers...will be rewarded by a story they cannot put down."
--BookPage

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 Group
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0812969812
• ISBN 13: 9780812969818
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256