Banishing Verona - Softcover

Livesey, Margot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805074627 ISBN 13: 9780805074628

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 2004

Synopsis

Follows the brief love affair of unworldly London carpenter Zeke and pregnant radio show host Verona, whose relationship is cut short in the face of Zeke's father's failing health, his mother's infidelity, and Verona's brother's shady financial dealings. 75,000 first printing. First serial, The New Yorker.

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Review

"An enthralling, unconventional boy-meets-girl story."--"People"(four stars)

"In "Banishing Verona", Livesey, a first-rate storyteller, examines the ties that bind families and lovers. Her take on life is original, her use of perspective is deft, and her prose lovely. Zeke is captivating."--"USA Today"

"Livesey is interested not in medical conditions but in the human condition. . . . In fact, [she] expands (as is fiction's mission) our notion of what being human can mean."--"The New York Times"

"In Livesey's deft hands, their connection is as credible (and incredible) as love itself....[She] pulls it off effortlessly."--"The Boston Globe"

"Tantalizing . . . Livesey has taken a familiar plot device and has turned it into such a delicious literary construct that it seems new."--"Seattle Post-Intelligencer"

An enthralling, unconventional boy-meets-girl story. "People(four stars)"

In "Banishing Verona," Livesey, a first-rate storyteller, examines the ties that bind families and lovers. Her take on life is original, her use of perspective is deft, and her prose lovely. Zeke is captivating. "USA Today"

Livesey is interested not in medical conditions but in the human condition. . . . In fact, [she] expands (as is fiction's mission) our notion of what being human can mean. "The New York Times"

In Livesey's deft hands, their connection is as credible (and incredible) as love itself....[She] pulls it off effortlessly. "The Boston Globe"

Tantalizing . . . Livesey has taken a familiar plot device and has turned it into such a delicious literary construct that it seems new. "Seattle Post-Intelligencer""

"An enthralling, unconventional boy-meets-girl story." --People(four stars)

"In Banishing Verona, Livesey, a first-rate storyteller, examines the ties that bind families and lovers. Her take on life is original, her use of perspective is deft, and her prose lovely. Zeke is captivating." --USA Today

"Livesey is interested not in medical conditions but in the human condition. . . . In fact, [she] expands (as is fiction's mission) our notion of what being human can mean." --The New York Times

"In Livesey's deft hands, their connection is as credible (and incredible) as love itself....[She] pulls it off effortlessly." --The Boston Globe

"Tantalizing . . . Livesey has taken a familiar plot device and has turned it into such a delicious literary construct that it seems new." --Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Synopsis

Zeke is twenty-nine, a man who looks like a Raphael angel and who earns his living as a painter and carpenter in London. He reads the world a little differently from most people and has trouble with such ordinary activities as lying, deciphering expressions, recognising faces. Verona is thirty-seven, confident, hot-tempered, a modestly successful radio show host, unmarried, and seven months pregnant. When the two meet in a house that Zeke is renovating, they fall in love, only to be separated, when Verona leaves abruptly, without explanation, for Boston. Both have complications in their lives. Verona involves her brother, Henry, who is tied up in shady financial dealings. Zeke has his own troubles, yet he finds himself following Verona to Boston. As he pursues her, and she pursues Henry, both are forced to ask the perplexing question: Can we ever know another person?

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0805074627
• ISBN 13: 9780805074628
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 321