At Paradise Gate

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Synopsis

In At Paradise Gate, Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Jane Smiley paints with searing accuracy a portrait of a marriage at breaking point and one family's struggle for survival.While seventy-seven-year-old Ike Robison is dying in his bedroom upstairs, his wife, Anna, must defend all that they have built together throughout their lengthy marriage as their house is invaded by their three interfering - albeit loving - middle-aged daughters and their twenty-three year old grand-daughter, Christine.Set over a three-day period of family crisis, Anna reflects over all that has happened, and all that is still left to come, in this compelling and gracefully wrought depiction of a marriage.

Book details

Edition:
16
Author:
Jane Smiley
ISBN:
9781509844173
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
18+
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2019-03-29
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
1998
Copyright by:
Jane Smiley 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family