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Overview"While her family thinks she is vacationing in Greece, Francesca Woodbridge- disguised by the wig, the dress, and the limp of an elderly woman - checks into a local hotel just blocks from her home. The reason for her deceit is twofold: to step outside of her life and observe it from a distance and to watch the comings and goings in her neighborhood for clues to potential suspects in her husband's shooting. Ever since the night her husband Ren was wounded by an intruder's gun, Francesca has felt uneasy in their marriage and resentful of how Ren has changed over the years. Now, as an undercover spy on her own life, she scans her history in her unsparing, sometimes darkly funny search for clarity - from the idealistic days of college when she first fell in love, through the quiet disappointments that have collected in the depths of her soul, to her recent, unexpected, passionate affair with her Russian gardener, Yuri, whose sudden, unexplainable disappearance leads her to question just who she has become. As she seeks an answer, she meets people she could never have known in her ""real"" life and views people she thought she knew as strangers. As she reveals who shot her husband, she is forced to see herself in a bold, new, and entirely unexpected light . . ." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Deirdre McNamerPublisher: Random House USA Inc Imprint: Ballantine Books Inc. Dimensions: Width: 13.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9780345439512ISBN 10: 0345439511 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 05 July 2000 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsDeirdre McNamer writes with a slow-burning brilliance. <br>--BARBARA KINGSOLVER <br> McNamer writes with extraordinary emotional acuity and with a keen sense of the small detail that says it all. . . . Quietly devastating. <br>--Chicago Tribune <br> A careful writer, a master of the small, telling observation. <br>--The New York Times Book Review Deirdre McNamer writes with a slow-burning brilliance. --BARBARA KINGSOLVER McNamer writes with extraordinary emotional acuity and with a keen sense of the small detail that says it all. . . . Quietly devastating. --Chicago Tribune A careful writer, a master of the small, telling observation. --The New York Times Book Review Deirdre McNamer writes with a slow-burning brilliance. <br>--BARBARA KINGSOLVER<br><br> McNamer writes with extraordinary emotional acuity and with a keen sense of the small detail that says it all. . . . Quietly devastating. <br>--Chicago Tribune<br><br> A careful writer, a master of the small, telling observation. <br>--The New York Times Book Review Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |