Questa autrice approfondisce l'intricato arazzo di relazioni e dinamiche familiari con un occhio acuto per i dettagli. La sua scrittura è caratterizzata da una profonda intuizione psicologica e da una tagliente comprensione delle motivazioni umane. Attraverso le sue narrazioni, svela i desideri nascosti e le aspettative insoddisfatte che plasmano le nostre vite. Le sue opere sono riccamente letterarie e stimolano la riflessione.
In 1982, Robb Forman Dew burst upon the literary scene with her American Book Award-winning first novel, Dale Loves Sophie to Death. Her second novel, The Time of Her Life, established her as a novelist of the first rank.--Publishers Weekly. Now she returns to the lives of the characters of her first novel in this mother-teenage son drama.
Widowed years earlier by a car accident, Agnes Scofield becomes a fiercely independent woman in post-World War II Ohio, anticipates the return of her children from the war, and evaluates suspicions surrounding her husband's fatal accident. By the author of The Evidence Against Her. 40,000 first printing.
On a bright September day in 1988, three children are born - Robert Butler, Lily Scofield and her cousin Warren - and they are inseparable from birth. Robert and Lily marry, but for all her days Lily loves Warren. When he falls in love with the younger Agnes Claytor, Lily's life is changed irrevocably. Set against the landscape of a turn-of-the-century small mid-western town, this is a classic story, a love story, a story of a family that readers will ache to follow into the next generation. Like Henry James and Edith Wharton, Dew has written a beautiful, moving, and accessible story about the evolution of an American family.