The Bleeding Heart
A Novel
Published on 24. September 2013
408 pages
978-1-4804-4489-8 (ISBN)
Description
A novel of second love between Americans abroad-"a monumental achievement" from the
New York Times-bestselling author of
The Women's Room (
Cosmopolitan).
Dolores Durer, a divorced English professor and the mother of two adult children, has sworn off love after a series of disastrous affairs. Electronics executive Victor Morrissey is in England to open a branch office. He has four children and is unhappily married.
From the moment they meet-on a train-their connection is instant and passionate. The two Americans abroad embark on an affair that will have consequences in both their lives. Each carries baggage. Dolores is haunted by family tragedy; Victor is tormented by marital estrangement. Driven by an impending sense of urgency, knowing their time together is finite, they struggle to transform their pasts into a hopeful future.
Dolores Durer, a divorced English professor and the mother of two adult children, has sworn off love after a series of disastrous affairs. Electronics executive Victor Morrissey is in England to open a branch office. He has four children and is unhappily married.
From the moment they meet-on a train-their connection is instant and passionate. The two Americans abroad embark on an affair that will have consequences in both their lives. Each carries baggage. Dolores is haunted by family tragedy; Victor is tormented by marital estrangement. Driven by an impending sense of urgency, knowing their time together is finite, they struggle to transform their pasts into a hopeful future.
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Person
Marilyn French was a novelist and feminist. Her books include
The Women's Room, which has been translated into twenty languages;
From Eve to Dawn, a History of Women in the World;
A Season in Hell;
Her Mother's Daughter;
Our Father;
My Summer with George; and
The Bleeding Heart. She died in 2009.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- I
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- II
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- III
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- IV
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- V
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- VI
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- VII
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- VIII
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- IX
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- About the Author
- Copyright
