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One True Thingby Quindlen, Anna
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Book DescriptionRandom House. Paperback. 067940712X Used book in Good Condition. Binding Good. Shows wear from use. Text is 99% clean. Owner’s Name. Binding: Paperback ISBN13: 9780679407126 Size: 6.5 x 9.5 x 1.2 in. <p> Publisher Description: One True Thing is a film starring Meryl Streep as the cancer-stricken homemaker mother, Renee Zellweger as the daughter who quits her top-dog job to care for her, and William Hurt as the chilly professor who lets the women in the family do the heavy emotional lifting dying requires. But the real star of the project remains former New York Times everyday-life columnist Anna Quindlen, who quit her top-dog job to write novels (and who took time off from college to nurse her own dying mother).<p><p>Quindlen hit a nerve with One True Thing, which captures an experience seldom dealt with in popular culture. (One exception: the sensitive 1996 film with Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio of the play Marvin's Room.) Though the heroine of One True Thing, Ellen Gulden, is a golden girl with two brothers who'll lose her career the instant she steps off the fast track, society concurs with her dad, who says, ""It seems to me another woman is what's wanted here.""<p><p>The book is a mother-daughter tale that should please fans of, say, The Joy Luck Club. It's not flashy, but it has a deep feel for the way children often discover, just before it's too late, who their parents really are. ""Our parents are never people to us,"" Ellen writes, ""they're always character traits.... There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat."" The mercy-killing subplot isn't gripping, but the palpable sense of deepening family intimacy certainly is. --Tim Appelo We are professional & prompt. . Good. 08/30/1994. 1st ed. Book summaryAs her mother dies of cancer, a young woman learns that nothing she thought about her mother or her family is quite what it seems.Media Reviews"One thing is true: This is a remarkable book. Anna Quindlen writes about family with all the humanity, wit and pain of going home. This is a strikingly honest and transforming book." -- Wendy Wasserstein "There is not a single false word in 'One True Thing'. Readers of her columns in the Times are aware that Anna Quindlen has a first-class mind; now they will know she has a great heart as well." -- Susan Isaacs "Will move you to reexamine your own intimate relations in search of the One True Thing." -- Gail Sheehy "Like a brush with mortality, 'One True Thing' leaves the reader feeling grateful, wide-awake, lucky to be alive." -- Michael Chabon "It is simply impossible to forget." -- Alice Hoffman Publisher NotesONE TRUE THING is a breathtaking, brilliantly realized novel, and it moves Anna Quindlen to the forefront of fiction writers in America. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, Quindlen is widely admired for her extraordinary intelligence, humor, and insight, and for the depth of her perceptions about the public and private lives of ordinary people. All these distinctive and original gifts, plus the magic only a superb writer of fiction can create, are evident in this astonishing book. Other Recommended Books
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