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The Wednesday Sisters

Meg Waite Clayton

  • Bindwijze: Paperback
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Literatuur & Romans
  • ISBN: 9780345502834
A Novel
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:05 mei 2009
Aantal pagina's:306
Illustraties:Nee
Betrokkenen
Hoofdauteur:Meg Waite Clayton
Hoofdauteur:Meg Waite Clayton
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Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:133 mm
Product hoogte:25 mm
Product lengte:216 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:133 mm
Verpakking hoogte:25 mm
Verpakking lengte:216 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:227 g
Overige kenmerken
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:133 mm
Product hoogte:25 mm
Product lengte:216 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:133 mm
Verpakking hoogte:25 mm
Verpakking lengte:216 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:227 g

Samenvatting

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Friendship, loyalty, and love lie at the heart of this beautifully written, poignant, and sweeping novel of five women who, over the course of four decades, come to redefine what it means to be family.

“This generous and inventive book is a delight to read, an evocation of the power of friendship to sustain, encourage, and embolden us. Join the sisterhood!”—Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club

For thirty-five years, Frankie, Linda, Kath, Brett, and Ally have met every Wednesday at the park near their homes in Palo Alto, California. Defined when they first meet by what their husbands do, the young homemakers and mothers are far removed from the Summer of Love that has enveloped most of the Bay Area in 1967. These “Wednesday Sisters” seem to have little in common: Frankie is a timid transplant from Chicago, brutally blunt Linda is a remarkable athlete, Kath is a Kentucky debutante, quiet Ally has a secret, and quirky, ultra-intelligent Brett wears little white gloves with her miniskirts. But they are bonded by a shared love of both literature—Fitzgerald, Eliot, Austen, du Maurier, Plath, and Dickens–and the Miss America Pageant, which they watch together every year.

As the years roll on and their children grow, the quintet forms a writers circle to express their hopes and dreams through poems, stories, and, eventually, books. Along the way, they experience history in the making: Vietnam, the race for the moon, and a women’s movement that challenges everything they have ever thought about themselves, while at the same time supporting one another through changes in their personal lives brought on by infidelity, longing, illness, failure, and success.

Humorous and moving, The Wednesday Sisters is a literary feast for book lovers that earns a place among those popular works that honor the joyful, mysterious, unbreakable bonds between friends.