Second Glance - Softcover

Picoult, Jodi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743454510 ISBN 13: 9780743454513

Publisher: Simon & Schuster International, 2004

Synopsis

In a small Vermont town, an old man puts a piece of land up for sale, igniting a firestorm of protest from the local Abenaki Indians, who insist it is an ancient burial ground. To appease them the developer looking to buy the property hires a ghost hunter, Ross Wakeman. Ross is a suicidal drifter desperate to cross paths again with his fiancee, who died in a car crash eight years earlier. But after several late nights all Ross can lay claim to discovering is Lia Beaumont, a skittish, mysterious woman who, like Ross, is on a search for something beyond the boundary separating life and death. Thus begins Picoult's enthralling and ultimately astonishing story of love, fate and a crime of passion. SECOND GLANCE, her eeriest and most engrossing work yet, delves into a virtually unknown chapter of American history, Vermont's eugenics project of the 1920s and 30s, to provide a compelling study of the things that come back to haunt us - literally and figuratively. Do we love across time, or in spite of it?

About this title

About the Author

Jodi Picoult grew up in Nesconset, New York. She received a BA in creative writing from Princeton and a master's degree in education from Harvard. Her website can be found at http://www.jodipicoult.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster International
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743454510
• ISBN 13: 9780743454513
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448