My Old Sweetheart (Contemporary American Fiction) - Softcover

Moore, Susanna

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9780140067835: My Old Sweetheart (Contemporary American Fiction)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140067833 ISBN 13: 9780140067835

Publisher: Penguin, 1983

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Lily Shield, now a wife and mother herself, still has trouble coming to terms with her mother's suicide when Lily was a young girl living in Hawaii

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"Marvellous, intense... Moore's touch is sure and her eye is piercing...magical" (Sunday Times)

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On the island of Hawaii, Lily Shields grows up amid the fragrance of night jasmine and burning sugar cane, and the heady atmosphere of her mother's madness. For if Anna Shields is an island unto herself - fragile, glamorous, and fearfully needy - Lily is the bridge that connects her to reality.

But now Lily is a young woman and a mother herself, self-exiled from Hawaii but still attached to Anna's tragedy. And as she tries to untangle those threads of love and loyalty, Moore gives us a novel of shimmering beauty and sadness. My Old Sweetheart is a small classic, perfectly formed and mysteriously wise.

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