Errands - Hardcover

Guest, Judith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345409043 ISBN 13: 9780345409041

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1997

Synopsis

Afflicted with grief, a widow and her three young children begin drifting apart, until a frightening accident awakens them to the bonds they still share. By the author of Ordinary People. Lit Guild Main. Doubleday Alt. Tour.

About this title

About the Author:

Judith Guest is the author of Ordinary People and Second Heaven. She lives in Edina, Minnesota, and Harrisville, Michigan.
From the Paperback edition.

From the Inside Flap:

ng author of the critically acclaimed masterpiece, Ordinary People, Judith Guest knows the subtle rhythms of family life. With a perceptive eye that captures the nuanced relationships of husbands and wives, parents and children, and the constant tug-of-war of sibling rivalry, she creates remarkably real characters struggling with profound dilemmas. Now, in her luminous new novel, Errands, Guest once again gives us an unforgettable family that finds the fabric of their lives unraveling.
North of Bay City, Michigan, past the small highway town of Au Gres, past acres of sugar beets and fields of grazing sheep, the Browner family enters the slow curve in the road that leads onto a view of Lake Huron. Keith, Annie, and their three children have rented the same cottage here every summer for the past six years. They know this place like the back of their station wagon. But a shadow has fallen over this particular trip: Keith is dying of cancer. It is a fate he has accepted. Annie h

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0345409043
• ISBN 13: 9780345409041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 335