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The storybook marriage of Morgan and Maude Shurtcliff, a couple raising their adopted twin daughters in the country outside New York City, is put to the test when Morgan goes off to World War II and other lovers beckon. By the author of The All of It.
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"One of the best books of the year."-- "Publishers Weekly""In "Matters of Chance, " Haien takes us through more than three decades if one family's pleasures and sorrows, detailing its members' enviable ability to accept the vagaries of fate. These people are old-fashioned in the best ways--they know that love is what counts and that it, along with decency and compassion, will sustain them."-- "New York Times Book Review""Masterpiece is an apt description for "Matters of Chance"--the story of a couple whose family lives through World War II and the decades that follow in much the same way most families did: one day at a time."-- "Fort Worth Star-Telegram""The ebb and flow of happiness and sadness in this wonderfully drawn portrait of a good man in times of peril and pleasure is...completely satisfying...You feel the bite of real life. You feel the teeth."-- "Chicago Tribune""An engrossing saga...A richly detailed yarn, depicting an old world where along with privilege came honor, tradition, responsibility and duty...Jeannette Haien is a writer of vast compassion, and her characters are rich in something all too rare these days: dignity."-- "Newsday"
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Jeannette Haien is the author of the acclaimed novel The All of It , winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In addition to her career as a writer, Jeannette Haien is well known as a concert pianist and teacher. She and her husband, a lawyer, live in New York City and Connemara, Ireland.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0060170034
- ISBN 13 9780060170035
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages439
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