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Mattison, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0688177867 ISBN 13: 9780688177867

Publisher: William Morrow, 2000

Synopsis

The tale of a twenty-two-year friendship between two women, Toby Ruben and Deborah Laidlaw, begins when Deborah lends Toby a book, a book that follows the two women on their journey through life. Reprint.

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Review:

"In deceptively quiet, guileless prose, she has described the mind numbing routine of child-care and the fraught, complex relations of men and women. Only Margaret Atwood (in "Cat's Eye") has written as knowingly about the frienship between women. Emotionally wrenching, beautifully realized work." --"The New York Times""Extraordinary." --"The Washington Post Book World""An ambitious and original novel...The author's determination not to tie things up is refreshing." --"The Wall Street Journal""This excellent novel weaves the story of a 1921 trolley strike...Mattison is concerned with the small decisions and coincidences that alter the course of our lives. Are they accidents, or impulses born of something deeper? Mattison's observations are so minutely compelling that each one feels like a shiny object, once lost but found unexpectedly." --"The New Yorker""A rich, textured exploration of misfortune and its consequences: a book that will reward any reader willing to go slow and absorb its course." --"Kirkus"

Synopsis:

A book about a trolley strike lent from one friend to the other plays an unexpected role in the long and difficult friendship of Toby Ruben and Deborah Laidlaw.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0688177867
• ISBN 13: 9780688177867
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288