Once upon a Day (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series) - Hardcover

Tucker, Lisa

3.68

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9780786289677: Once upon a Day (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786289678 ISBN 13: 9780786289677

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2006

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Having been raised in utopian isolation by her once-famous Hollywood father, twenty-three-year-old Dorothea leaves their New Mexico sanctuary in search of her missing brother, befriends a homeless jazz singer and a doctor-turned cabdriver, and discovers terrifying truths about her family's past. By the author of Shout Down the Moon. Simultaneous.

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Review:

"Deftly written and emotionally convincing."

-- "Marie Claire"

""Once Upon a Day" is a smart, compelling story about the ungainliness of familial and romantic love. Tucker's quietly and yet wildly ambitious novel is a subtle, witty deconstruction of fairy tales and a graceful tour de force of storytelling." -- Mark Winegardner, author, "Crooked River Burning" and "The Godfather Returns"

"The spirit of "Jane Eyre" looms over "Once Upon a Day". Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with tons of juicy family secrets." -- Stewart O'Nan

"Lisa Tucker gives me what I want most from fiction: compassion and provocation. "Once Upon a Day" is her most impressive novel to date." -- John Dufresne, author, "Louisiana Power & Light" and "Love Warps the Mind a Little"

"Tucker's outstanding novel is as structurally dextrous as it is emotionally satisfying, boasting a chorus of extraordinary voices. An exceptionally empathetic storyteller, Tucker has created a haunting, gripping novel that brims with graceful writing and fragile characters. Devour it as a page-turner about parenting and family or discuss its subtle meditations on fate and coincidence, wealth and poverty, fairy tales and American dreams." -- "Publishers Weekly" (starred review)

"Deftly written and emotionally convincing."
-- "Marie Claire"

"A lyrically poignant reminder of the necessity of hope."
-- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Tucker's graceful prose and well-crafted characters create a compelling odyssey of transfiguration."
-- People (Critic's Choice)

"Tucker's most ambitious novel yet. It's a tragedy, a mystery, a romance, a twisted family story about loss, violence, obsession, and forgiveness."
-- The Boston Globe

"Tucker's new fable is self-consciously the stuff of fairy tales.... The book is charged with the sense that life is charmed, that chance encounters can change fates and remake them for the better."
-- San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author:

Lisa Tucker is the bestselling author of The Promised World, The Cure for Modern Life, Once Upon a Day, Shout Down the Moon and The Song Reader. Her short work has appeared in Seventeen, Pages and The Oxford American. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.

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