Summer Reading: A Novel - Hardcover

Wolitzer, Hilma

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995 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345485866 ISBN 13: 9780345485861

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2007

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The lives of three very different women--Lissy Snyder, a beautiful, insecure newlywed and unwilling stepmother; her resentful, nosey housecleaner, Michelle; and Angela Graves, the bookish, solitary head of a local book group--intersect over the course of a summer in the Hamptons as they find their reading choices changing their lives forever. 30,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Summer Reading is a joy from start to finish; a wonderful book for any season."
-Jane Hamilton

Praise for Hilma Wolitzer's The Doctor's Daughter

"Triumphant . . . a fast-paced novel so well written you want to linger over it."
-The New York Times Book Review

"Packs an emotional wallop . . . Wolitzer's evocation of Alice's first-person narration is nuanced, sensitive, keenly observant, her prose measured, polished, nimble."
-The Philadelphia Inquirer

"The Doctor's Daughter reminds us what novels can do. Wolitzer takes a simple, touching, human situation and enlarges it into a heartbreaking and permanent story of loss and renewal."
-Adam Gopnik

"A beautiful tale of coming apart and reconciliation."
-A. M. Homes

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About the Author:

Hilma Wolitzer is the author of several novels, including The Doctor’s Daughter, Hearts, Ending, and Tunnel of Love, as well as the nonfiction book The Company of Writers. She is a recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She has taught writing at the University of Iowa, New York University, and Columbia University. Hilma Wolitzer lives in New York City.

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