Blue Heaven
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Hardcover. 5.75"x8.5. 666 pages. Black boards w/gold foil letters on spine. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. X-library w/graphics. Secure ship w/track #. Very Good / Very Good. Item #10570
ISBN: 0679435980
A new, irresistible, emotionally compelling novel by the author of The Girls.
Three women -- Mollie; her daughter, Gilliana; and Gilliana's daughter, Clare -- take us into their lives. In the past, Mollie's story: her passionate early marriage, surviving separation in World War II only to be destroyed by her husband's uncontrollable gambling; the unexpected sweetness and soundness of the years of her marriage with the beloved Lew. And Gilliana's story: a perfect -- and doomed -- romance with a famous entertainer who is both charming and giving; a glamorous career; a failing marriage. And in the present: teenage Clare, observing the crash of her parents' marriage and, even worse, her grandmother Mollie's descent into senility, while she herself, on the brink of first love, trie... Source: Publisher.
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