1970, ISBN: 0679450084

Mom learned to fall backward into the arms of strangers without hesitating or looking over her shoulder. She learned to fall freely, with her muscles relaxed and her mind open..." So be… Altro …

Mom learned to fall backward into the arms of strangers without hesitating or looking over her shoulder. She learned to fall freely, with her muscles relaxed and her mind open..." So begins Martha McPhee's first novel, Bright Angel Time, a story rooted in the freewheeling, free-falling decade of the 1970s. For Kate, the tale's narrator, life starts to crumble the day of the first moon landing. That is when her father takes off with his lover and leaves his family high and dry. Soon after, Kate's mother, Eve, falls in love with Anton, a man with a smarmy charisma that draws one in even as it invites second thoughts. A hippie pied piper, Anton lures Eve and her three daughters into a cross-country odyssey from New Jersey to a commune in Big Sur. There his own children from a previous marriage join the menagerie. McPhee captures the era when women's liberation mixed with notions of free love led to sexual license, and Gestalt therapy promised enlightenment. Seen through the eyes of Kate and her two sisters, this is not so much a time of freedom as one of confusion, adult carelessness, and neglect. Kate's steely-eyed view of her parents' world, combined with McPhee's brilliant imagery and deft characterization, makes this '70s-era tale a book for the '90s. contemporary,divorce,domestic life,family saga,fiction,genre fiction,literature and fiction,mothers and children,sisters,women's fiction Literature & Fiction, Random House<

1970, ISBN: 9780679450085

This magical novel about three about daughters struggling with divorce, dislocation, and the radical new lifestyle their mother adopts is in the tradition of Mona Simpson's Anywhere But H… Altro …

This magical novel about three about daughters struggling with divorce, dislocation, and the radical new lifestyle their mother adopts is in the tradition of Mona Simpson's Anywhere But Here, and it introduces an exceptional new writer.Set in the early 1970s, this is the story of Kate and her sisters, and the life on the road they adopt when their divorced and devastated mother falls in love with an Esalen expert on passion and love. Their new lifestyle of license, including exposure to alcohol, sex, drugs, and too much freedom, is vastly different from the traditional life they once lived with their geologist father, who taught them about rocks and solid things, especially a layer of rock in the Grand Canyon called Bright Angel shale. It is there in the canyon that adult distraction and carelessness threaten to explode and ruin Kate's life. This bold and wonderfully written novel is rich in original imagery and humor, with a strong and visceral sense of place. The power of Martha McPhee's vision generated great excitement when early portions of Bright Angel Time appeared in The New Yorker. Media > Book, [PU: Random House; Alfred A. Knopf]<

1970, ISBN: 9780679450085

This magical novel about three about daughters struggling with divorce, dislocation, and the radical new lifestyle their mother adopts is in the tradition of Mona Simpson's Anywhere But H… Altro …

This magical novel about three about daughters struggling with divorce, dislocation, and the radical new lifestyle their mother adopts is in the tradition of Mona Simpson's Anywhere But Here, and it introduces an exceptional new writer.Set in the early 1970s, this is the story of Kate and her sisters, and the life on the road they adopt when their divorced and devastated mother falls in love with an Esalen expert on passion and love. Their new lifestyle of license, including exposure to alcohol, sex, drugs, and too much freedom, is vastly different from the traditional life they once lived with their geologist father, who taught them about rocks and solid things, especially a layer of rock in the Grand Canyon called Bright Angel shale. It is there in the canyon that adult distraction and carelessness threaten to explode and ruin Kate's life. This bold and wonderfully written novel is rich in original imagery and humor, with a strong and visceral sense of place. The power of Martha McPhee's vision generated great excitement when early portions of Bright Angel Time appeared in The New Yorker. Media >, [PU: Random House; Alfred A. Knopf]<

1970, ISBN: 0679450084

Set in the early 1970s, this magical first novel by National Book Award finalist Martha McPhee marked not only the introduction of the Furey-Cooper family of Gorgeous Lies, but also the a… Altro …

Set in the early 1970s, this magical first novel by National Book Award finalist Martha McPhee marked not only the introduction of the Furey-Cooper family of Gorgeous Lies, but also the auspicious debut of a stunning literary talent.Meet eight-year-old Kate and her sisters as they take to a life on the road when their divorced mother falls in love with someone new. This strange freedom introduces the girls to a way of life that is vastly different from the one they knew with their geologist father. But, far from him, adult distraction and carelessness finally threaten to explode and ruin Kate's life. Rich in character, imagery, and humor, Bright Angel Time is a brilliant and moving novel from an authentic, critically acclaimed new voice. contemporary,divorce,domestic life,family saga,fiction,genre fiction,literature and fiction,mothers and children,sisters,women's fiction Literature & Fiction, Random House Publishing Group<

ISBN: 9780679450085

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