Автор: Maynard Joyce Название: Unti Maynard Novel #4 LP ISBN: 0062257765 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062257765 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 2716.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and After Her returns with a provocative, complex, and relentlessly gripping novel about emotional seduction and betrayal. Under the Influence asks: Where do the boundaries of friendship lie? And at what point does generosity become a form of deadly manipulation?
When Helen meets Swift and Ava Havilland at an art gallery opening, her life is at an all-time low. A DUI conviction caused her to lose her driver s license and custody of her eight-year-old son, Oliver. Now she sees Ollie on Saturdays for bowling and laser tag and meals in fast-food restaurants, where his eyes stay glued to the screen of his portable gaming device. He hasn t forgiven his mother for messing up their life. She s got a dead-end job and goes on occasional dates, but spends most evenings at AA meetings. The Havillands change all that.
Ava and Swift are wealthy, charismatic philanthropists passionate animal lovers and passionate lovers of each other, it seems. Their art-filled home is the setting for frequent over-the-top parties. Nobody talks about why Ava s in a wheelchair, but her disability doesn t keep her from bestowing kindness on the homeless and the helpless, and devising elaborate save-the-world projects. Though Ava specializes in rescuing dogs, this time she decides to rescue Helen. We re going to give you a life, she announces.
The Havillands quickly become the center of Helen s world, as she takes on jobs for them and joins their glamorous inner circle dressing in Ava s hand-me-downs, entertaining the couple with stories of disastrous dates, cataloging their art collection, sharing meals and increasingly intimate confidences.
Then Helen meets Elliot a quiet, uncool accountant the Havillands dismiss as boring. Helen might be falling in love with him, but her new best friends disapprove and cause Helen to distrust her own heart.
Most compelling, for Helen, is what her friendship with the Havillands has meant to her relationship with her son. Ollie has fallen under Swift s spell; the lonely boy looks up to the larger-than-life man who treats him like a second son. And Swift has promised Helen the services of a high-powered attorney to help her regain custody.
Then tragedy strikes: Ollie witnesses a devastating accident at the Havillands lake house. Now Helen and Ollie must pay up for the generosity of Helen s new friends. Or pay dearly if they refuse.
Praise For Joyce Maynard
Under The Influence
Tantalizing and seductive. . . . A story about the pull of consuming friendships, of seeking to escape into the lives of others, of possession and illusion. . . . Utterly captivating. Megan Abbott, Edgar Award winning author of Dare Me and The Fever
After Her
A deeply moving novel that sheds necessary light on that sometimes tenuous
yet fiercely enduring love between daughters and fathers. ANDRE DUBUS III
The Good Daughters
Maynard s spare prose packs a rich emotional punch. . . . A can t-put-it-down mystery. People
Labor Day
Labor Day is a sexy, page-turning, poignant story told by a sweetly baffled young hero, perhaps the best kind of hero to narrate any tale. JANE HAMILTON, author of Laura Rider s Masterpiece and A Map of the World"
Автор: Maynard Joyce Название: After Her LP ISBN: 0062257420 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062257420 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 2716.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Summer, 1979. A hot, Northern California school vacation stretches before Rachel and her younger sister Patty--the daughters of a larger-than-life, irresistibly handsome detective father and the mother whose heart he broke.
Left to their own devices, the sisters spend their days studying record jackets, concocting elaborate fantasies about a mysterious neighbor, and playing dangerous games on the mountain that looms behind their house.
When young women start turning up dead on the mountain, the girls' father is put in charge of finding the murderer. Watching her father's life slowly unravel as months pass and more women are killed, Rachel embarks on her most dangerous game yet . . . using herself as bait to catch the killer. But, rather than cracking the case, the consequences of Rachel's actions will destroy her father's career and alter forever the lives of everyone she loves.
Thirty years later, still haunted by the belief that the killer remains at large, Rachel constructs a new strategy to smoke out the Sunset Strangler and vindicate her father--a plan that unexpectedly unearths a long-buried family secret.
--Tampa Tribune on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS
Автор: Maynard Joyce Название: Labor Day ISBN: 0061893927 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061893926 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 2611.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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"Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with Labor Day. Simply a novel you cannot miss."
--Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Keeping Faith
"Maynard has created an ensemble of characters that will sneak into your heart, and warm it while it breaks."
--St. Petersburg Times
Joyce Maynard, acclaimed author of At Home in the World, is back with Labor Day. The unforgettable story of a mother and son forever changed during a long summer weekend when a mysterious man comes into their lives. Labor Day is "a sexy, page turning, poignant story" (Jane Hamilton, author of A Map of the World) that "affirms Maynard's reputation as a master storyteller and shows her to be a passionate humanist with a gifted ear and heart" (People)
--Arizona Republic
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