Matters of Chance
A Novel
1st Edition
Published on 27. October 2009
448 pages
978-0-06-197829-6 (ISBN)
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Here is a captivating novel about Morgan and Maude Shurtliff, who fall in love and wed in the years just before World War II. Unable to have children of their own, they adopt twin girls and move to a beautiful country house outside of Cleveland. They begin to settle into what they hope will be a long and happy life. But when Morgan is called to serve in the war, leaving Maude to raise their young daughters alone, they find their lives irrevocably changed. Matters of Chance recalls the best of Edith Wharton-epic in scope, brimming with the vivid details of another time, and exuberantly alive with a cast of unforgettable characters.
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Jeannette Haien is the author of the acclaimed novel The All of It , winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In addition to her career as a writer, Jeannette Haien is well known as a concert pianist and teacher. She and her husband, a lawyer, live in New York City and Connemara, Ireland.
