The Doctor's Daughter

The Doctor's Daughter
Author :
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Total Pages : 263
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307417008
ISBN-13 : 030741700X
Rating : 4/5 (00X Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Doctor's Daughter by : Hilma Wolitzer

Download or read book The Doctor's Daughter written by Hilma Wolitzer and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first work of fiction in more than a decade, award-winning novelist Hilma Wolitzer brilliantly renders the intimate details of ordinary life and exposes a host of hidden truths. The Doctor’s Daughter is a haunting portrait of a woman coming to terms with her family history and the fallibility of memory. One morning, Alice Brill awakes with a sudden awareness that something is wrong. There’s a hollowness in her chest, and a sensation of dread that she can’t identify or shake. Was it something she’s done, or forgotten to do? As she scours her mind for the source of her unease, she confronts an array of disturbing possibilities. First, there is her marriage, a once vibrant relationship that now languishes stasis. Then there’s her idle, misdirected younger son, who always needs bailing out of some difficulty. Or perhaps Alice’s trepidation is caused by the loss of her career as an editor at a large publishing house, and the new path she’s paved for herself as a freelance book doctor. Or it might be the real doctor in her life: her father. Formerly one of New York’s top surgeons, he now rests in a nursing home, his mind gripped by dementia. And the Eden that was Alice’s childhood–the material benefits and reflected glory of being a successful doctor’s daughter, the romance of her parents’ famously perfect marriage–makes her own domestic life seem fatally flawed. While struggling to find the root of her restlessness, Alice is buoyed by her discovery of a talented new writer, a man who works by day as a machinist in Michigan. Soon their interactions and feelings intensify, and Alice realizes that the mystery she’s been trying to solve lies not in the present, as she had assumed, but in the past–and in the secrets of a marriage that was never as perfect as it appeared. Like the best works of Anne Tyler, Sue Miller, and Gail Godwin, The Doctor’s Daughter is private yet universal, luminous and revelatory–and marks the reemergence of a singular talent in American writing.


The Doctor's Daughter Related Books

The Doctor's Daughter
Language: en
Pages: 263
Authors: Hilma Wolitzer
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-18 - Publisher: Ballantine Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In her first work of fiction in more than a decade, award-winning novelist Hilma Wolitzer brilliantly renders the intimate details of ordinary life and exposes
The Daughter of the Doctor and the Saint
Language: en
Pages: 413
Authors: Edward Swift
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-18 - Publisher: Open Road Media

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

DIVDIVThe magical saga of a remarkable family undone by madness, fate, and politics, and a dutiful daughter’s lifelong pursuit of righteous retribution/divDIV
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-07-19 - Publisher: Del Rey

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island o
Doctor in Petticoats
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Mary Connealy
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-01 - Publisher: Barbour Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

What happens when an idealistic student nurse encounters an embittered army doctor in a stagecoach accident? How will she react when she learns her training did
Baby 411
Language: en
Pages: 484
Authors: Ari Brown
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

You are having a baby! Congratulations! Now, the reality hits you -- what the heck am I doing? What if you could bottle the wisdom of all those parents who've c