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Off Season

by Anne Rivers Siddons

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ISBN13: 9780446527873
ISBN10: 0446527874
Condition: Standard
Dustjacket: Standard
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"No one does coastal melodrama like veteran Siddons (Homeplace). Lilly Constable McCall, 53, has led an enviable life — marriage and children with a successful architect, her own success as a sculptor — but husband Cam's death sends her spiraling. She returns to the coastal family cottage in Edgewater, Maine, where she spent her childhood, and where Cam died. There, she recalls the summer of 1962, and the arrival in town of new girl Peaches Davenport, who envies all Lilly has. That includes the attentions of attractive older boy Jon Lowell, who awakens grown-up feelings in Lilly's 11-year-old heart. But it's Lilly's place as the daughter of a Washington, D.C., professor and the 'sporadically successful' painter and activist Elizabeth Constable — that makes Lilly's childhood most attractive to Peaches, and to readers. Jon may have shared her first kiss, and Cam her home and children, but it's the changing relationship between Lilly and the elusive, enigmatic Elizabeth that makes this story fresh." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Synopsis:

Acclaimed novelist Anne Rivers Siddons's new novel is a stunning tale of love and loss.

For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lilly--happily married, totally in love with each other, parents of a beautiful family, and partners in life. Then, after decades of marriage, it ended as every great love story does...in loss. After Cam's death, Lilly takes a lone road trip to her and Cam's favorite spot on the remote coast of Maine, the place where they fell in love over and over again, where their ghosts still dance. There, she looks hard to her past--to a first love that ended in tragedy; to falling in love with Cam; to a marriage filled with exuberance, sheer life, and safety-- to try to figure out her future.

It is a journey begun with tender memories and culminating in a revelation that will make Lilly re-evaluate everything she thought was true about her husband and her marriage.

Synopsis:

Acclaimed novelist Siddons' new novel is a stunning tale of love and loss as one woman looks hard to her past to try to figure out her future. A journey that begins with tender memories culminates in a revelation that will make her re-evaluate everything she thinks she knows.

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Suezq, October 18, 2009 (view all comments by Suezq)
Mrs. Siddons has always been one of my favorite authors, but I have a feeling most readers would like this story no matter who the author was! Her writing draws you in and keeps you there because you can totally identify with and believe in the characters. That the simplest truths of our lives can become so convoluted is wonderfully woven into all aspects of the main character, Lilly's, life. Mrs. Siddons explores all the hidden spots of Lilly's heart so deeply it made me wonder if she could see into my heart as well! The ending was a stunner and I read it three times just to get my mind around it even though in hindsight I should have seen it coming. Then I turned back to the first page and read it all over again!
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VickiLN, August 16, 2009 (view all comments by VickiLN)
When I first received the book, I thought "Oh no, it's so long" (358 pages). I really like to read shorter books. But as soon as I started reading I loved the characters and the descriptions of Edgewater made me feel as if I was there with them at the sea, smelling the food from the kitchen, feeling the excitement at being a child in the summertime. The only down side was I felt the book should have concentrated more on Lilly and Cam's life together, since there are missing years we know nothing about. I felt Lilly's pain at losing her loved one and loved that she talked to him and "heard" him talk to her. I've read mixed reviews about the ending, but if you read carefully and pay attention to what comes before, you might have an idea of what is coming. I did, and loved it from a readers point of view, but hated it for Lilly. This will definitely not be the last time I read a Anne Rivers Siddons book!
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mizsong, October 3, 2008 (view all comments by mizsong)
I'm seeing a lot of people confused by the ending, but I believe faced with a crushing reality check in the form of a child she did not know about, in a place that was sacred to her,both before she met her husband and after, she died. In dying, she is reunited with a lost first love. It will be interesting to see what others glean from the rather mystical ending............
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780446527873
Author:
Siddons, Anne Rivers
Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing
Location:
New York
Subject:
Marathon running
Subject:
General
Subject:
Contemporary Women
Subject:
Widows
Subject:
Self-realization in women
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Series Volume:
IMS-14
Publication Date:
August 2008
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
358
Dimensions:
9.24x6.31x1.22 in. 1.24 lbs.

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