Author

Publication

1999-08-03 - One World/Ballantine

Language

English

Word Count

68,000 words, Guess

Page Count

272 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveedgeofheaven00mari
  • ISBN-100345431723
  • ISBN-139780345431721
  • LibraryThing1549951
  • Goodreads587849
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  • Better World Books9780345431721
  • Open LibraryOL9662752M

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3557.O3593 E34 1998

Description

Marita Golden's fourth novel - set in contemporary Washington, D.C. - explores the deep and sometimes unresolvable issues that stretch the delicate weave of family relationships almost beyond endurance. In her new novel, The Edge of Heaven, Golden has fashioned a deceptively simple story of a family whose lives have been shattered by a single moment of angry carelessness. Through the eyes of Teresa Singletary, a twenty-year-old college student with a seemingly insupportable emotional burden; her father, Ryland; and her mother, Lena - whose return to her own mother's home has precipitated a reckoning with Teresa - we share the pain they each undergo as they struggle to reconcile their differences.

First Sentence

My mother returned that summer from an exile both imposed and earned.

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