
The Truth Of The Matter
Robb Forman Dew(Author)
Little, Brown & Company (Publisher)
Published on 7. December 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-316-01330-7 (ISBN)
Description
Agnes Scofield, the heroine of Dew's lovely, low-key period piece, can join Mrs. Ramsay and Mrs. Bridge at the tea table of exquisitely etched literary matrons. A respectable Ohio widow with three grown children, Agnes is beginning to carve out an independent middle-aged life for herself (which includes a secret lover) when, in 1947, her children all suddenly return to town. They have full lives of their own, but take for granted that Mother will always put supper on the table and never step outside her role as self-sacrificing, sexless matriarch. Dew's achievement is to capture both Agnes' ambivalence about these demands and the dignity in her struggle to meet them." -Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice)
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-316-01330-7 (9780316013307)
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Person
Rob Forman Dew is the author of Dale Loves Sophie to Death, which won the National Book Award (then known as the American Book Award) plus 3 other novels and a memoir. She lives in Williamstown, Mass., with her husband, a writer and professor of history at Williams College