Attachment
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Price:
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$21.95
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On Sale:
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13/01/2009
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Formats:
Trade PB
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Reaching into the most confounding precincts of the human heart,
Attachment is a bold and thoughtful fiction debut that spans the Indian
Ocean, London and New York. Jean Hubbard is a syndicated health columnist; her
husband, Mark, a successful advertising executive. After more than 20 years
together, they revel in a sabbatical on a remote tropical island. But when Jean
opens an erotically charged email intended for Mark, she realizes that she has
misdiagnosed some acute pathologies in her own life. The long idyll of the
couple’s mutual ease is over -- and a more vivid quest has just begun.
Searching
for answers, Jean goes undercover, with a surreptitious correspondence that
propels her on to alarming, and illuminating, adventures of her own in her
adopted home of London and her native New York.
Assured, funny, tender and provocative, Attachment is
a dazzling first novel. Unflinching in its depiction of desire and of the
responsibility that comes with age and family, Attachment explores the
impulses that colour our lives even as they expose the true nature of love.
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Author Extras
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Critical Praise for
Attachment
“A gracefully written novel about aging, parents and children, and the
mystery that even married partners can be to each other.”
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The New York Times
“Fonseca possesses a considerable novelizing talent—a wonderful eye and
vocabulary for the observable world, a natural gift for portraiture and at times
a nasty wit about characters we’re not meant to like.”
—
Richard Ford
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Jean Hubbard, forty-six, is a syndicated health columnist, her British husband, Mark, a successful advertising executive, and after more than twenty years together they revel in a sabbatical on a remote tropical island. But when Jean discovers a salacious love letter addressed to Mark, she...
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