Attachment (Vintage) - Softcover

Fonseca, Isabel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307386511 ISBN 13: 9780307386519

Publisher: Vintage, 2009

Synopsis

After more than twenty years of life in London, Jean and Mark Hubbard decamp to a remote tropical island in the Indian Ocean. But when Jean, a health columnist, discovers a salacious love letter addressed to her husband, she realizes that she has misdiagnosed some acute pathologies in her own life. The long idyll of their mutual ease is over - and a new quest has just begun. Looking for answers, Jean goes undercover with a surreptitious correspondence that propels her on to alarming and illuminating adventures of her own. Isabel Fonseca explores the impulses that color and disrupt our lives even as they reveal, ever more clearly, the nature of love.

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About the Author

In addition to her best-selling Bury Me Standing, Isabel Fonseca has written for a wide range of publications, including The Independent, Vogue, The Nation, and TheWall Street Journal. Born in New York, she was educated at Columbia and Oxford and lives in London with her husband, Martin Amis, and their two daughters.

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“Fearless. . . . Fonseca shows off a vicious humor and an unsparing prose style in this ink-dark foray into marriage's murkier precincts.”
—Vogue

The introduction, questions, and suggestions for further reading that follow are designed to enliven your group's discussion of Attachment, Isabel Fonseca's provocative novel about desire, the responsibility that comes with age and family, and the impulses that color and disrupt our lives even as they reveal, ever more clearly, the nature of love.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307386511
• ISBN 13: 9780307386519
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320