Loss of Innocence

Patterson, Richard North

ISBN 10: 162460160X ISBN 13: 9781624601606

Publisher: Blackstone Pub, 2013

Synopsis

A family drama of secrets and individual awakenings is set during the summer of 1968 in Martha's Vineyard, where Whitney Dane begins questioning her goals and sense of independence at the side of a fiercely ambitious, underprivileged man.

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Review

'A snapshot of America at a pivotal moment in history, and a beautifully written coming-of-age novel' Lady Antonia Fraser. (Lady Antonia Fraser)

'A stunning tour de force. Martha's Vineyard, with its heartbreaking beauty, is the ideal setting for an engrossing drama of a so-called perfect family riven by its secrets' Linda Fairstein. (Linda Fairstein)

'This may be Richard North Patterson's best work: surprising and different, yet with the same ability to penetrate the minds of others - especially women, which is a rare gift' Stephen Fry. (Stephen Fry)

From the Back Cover

June, 1968. American is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty.
Yet for Whitney Dane - spending the summer of her twenty-first year on Martha's Vineyard, soon to be married and the youngest daughter of the patrician Dane family - life could not be safer, nor the future more certain. Whitney has everything she has ever wanted, and is everything her all-powerful and doting father, Charles Dane, wants her to be. But the Vineyard's still waters are disturbed by the appearance of Benjamin Blaine. An underprivileged, yet fiercely ambitious and charismatic young man, Blaine is a force of nature neither Whitney nor her family could have prepared for. As Ben's presence begins to awaken independence within Whitney, it also brings deep-rooted Dan tensions to a dangerous head. And soon Whitney's gilded future becomes far from certain, and her picture-perfect family far from pretty.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstone Pub
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 162460160X
• ISBN 13: 9781624601606
• Binding: MP3 CD