Next to Love - Hardcover

Feldman, Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812992717 ISBN 13: 9780812992717

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau, 2011

Synopsis

For fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Postmistress, and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave set during the years of World War II and its aftermath.

Set in a small town in Massachusetts, Next to Love follows three childhood friends, Babe, Millie, and Grace, whose lives are unmoored when their men are called to duty. And yet the changes that are thrust upon them move them in directions they never dreamed possible—while their husbands and boyfriends are enduring their own transformations. In the decades that follow, the three friends lose their innocence, struggle to raise their children, and find meaning and love in unexpected places. And as they change, so does America—from a country in which people know their place in the social hierarchy to a world in which feminism, the Civil Rights movement, and technological innovations present new possibilities—and uncertainties. And yet Babe, Millie, and Grace remain bonded by their past, even as their children grow up and away and a new society rises from the ashes of the war.

Beautifully crafted and unforgettable, Next to Love depicts the enduring power of love and friendship, and illuminates a transformational moment in American history.

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Review:

"Haunting and profoundly moving...At turns brave, frustrating, and fragile, Feldman's characters live and love with breathtaking intensity, and her deft juggling of several zigzagging plots makes the pages flow past with the force of a slow but mighty river."--"Booklist" (starred review)
"A lustrous evocation of a stormy period in our past; highly recommended for lovers of World War II fiction."--"Library Journal "(starred review)
"Beautifully rendered."--"Publishers Weekly"
"Compelling."--Vogue.com
"A powerful, haunting, deeply ambitious novel about love and war, impeccably executed, impossible to put down."--Stacy Schiff, author of "Cleopatra: A Life"
""Next to Love" is a remarkable novel driven by the powerful engine of most great literature: the yearning for a self. These three deeply, compassionately evoked women seek their own individual identities as the world and the people they love undergo profound change. But they have each other and th

"Haunting and profoundly moving . . . At turns brave, frustrating, and fragile, [Ellen] Feldman's characters live and love with breathtaking intensity."--"Booklist" (starred review)

"A remarkable novel driven by the powerful engine of most great literature: the yearning for a self."--Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain"

"An intimate look at how we can be dismantled and rebuilt by changing times."--"O: The Oprah Magazine"
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"A deftly revealing . . . portrait of the changing face of America . . . heartbreaking reality."--"Marie Claire"
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"An honest American experience of the aftermath of World War II rendered in sharp detail and full of pathos, "Next to Love" tells us what we hate to acknowledge--that personal battles don't end with the armistice."--Susan Vreeland, author of "Clara and Mr. Tiffany"

"Haunting and profoundly moving . . . At turns brave, frustrating, and fragile, [Ellen] Feldman's characters live and love with breathtaking intensity."--Booklist (starred review)

"A remarkable novel driven by the powerful engine of most great literature: the yearning for a self."--Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

"An intimate look at how we can be dismantled and rebuilt by changing times."--O: The Oprah Magazine

"A deftly revealing . . . portrait of the changing face of America . . . heartbreaking reality."--Marie Claire

"An honest American experience of the aftermath of World War II rendered in sharp detail and full of pathos, Next to Love tells us what we hate to acknowledge--that personal battles don't end with the armistice."--Susan Vreeland, author of Clara and Mr. Tiffany

Book Description:

A heartbreaking tale of love and friendship from an Orange Prize shortlisted author

About this edition

• Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0812992717
• ISBN 13: 9780812992717
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 292