Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series) - Hardcover

Gillies, Isabel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410417786 ISBN 13: 9781410417787

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2009

Synopsis

Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life -- a handsome, intelligent, loving husband; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly, that life was over. Her husband, Josiah, announced that he was leaving her and their two young sons.When Josiah took a teaching job at a Midwestern college, Isabel and their sons moved with him from New York City to Ohio, where Isabel taught acting, threw herself into the college community, and delighted in the less-scheduled lives of toddlers raised away from the city. But within a few months, the marriage was over. The life Isabel had made crumbled. "Happens every day," said a friend.Far from a self-pitying diatribe, Happens Every Day reads like an intimate conversation between friends. Gillies has written a dizzyingly candid, compulsively readable, ultimately redemptive story about love, marriage, family, heartbreak, and the unexpected turns of a life. On the one hand, reading...

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The actress describes her life after she moved with her husband, Josiah, and her two young sons from New York City to Oberlin, Ohio, where her husband got a teaching job, and how he left her and the children a few months later.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1410417786
• ISBN 13: 9781410417787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 343