Synopses & Reviews
In the tradition of Elizabeth Berg, this is a rich, powerful story of a fiercely independent single mother who must confront loss in order to find love. They met in high school and had absolutely nothing in common. Blair Clemons was the weird hippie girl who kept to herself. Luke Bellingham was a golden boy, rich, handsome, destined for greatness. Now, years later, Luke has fulfilled his early promise, becoming one of the country's most acclaimed screenwriters. Blair is a struggling single mother with a teenage daughter, a job as a chef, and a heartbreaking secret that will test all of her enotional resources. Still as feisty and offbeat as ever, she loves no one other than her daughter, and intends to keep things that way--that is, until she crosses paths with Luke Bellingham. Now she must figure out what to do when the right man comes along, but at the wrong time. On a Night Like This is a deeply emotional pageturner about the complexities of relationships and the extraordinary choices our attachments inspire.
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- In an astonishing debut novel, Ellen Sussman writes a heartbreaking tale filled with emotional intensity in the tradition of Anita Shreve's "Sea Glass (Little, Brown, 4/02), Elizabeth Berg's "Open House (Ballantine, 2001), and Sue Miller's "While I Was Gone (Ballantine, 1999).- With its spare, unsentimental prose, superbly realized characters, and vivid San Francisco setting, ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS is a timeless love story and a commercial novel with wide appeal.- Ellen Sussman has published many short stories in literary and commercial magazines, in addition to winning the short story contests of both "Redbook and "Paris Transcontinental, as well as a Writers at Work Fellowship. She has taught at Rutgers University, UCLA, and Johns Hopkins University.
Synopsis
In an astonishing debut novel, Sussman writes a heartbreaking tale filled with emotional intensity in the tradition of Anita Shreve's "Sea Glass" and Elizabeth Berg's "Open House."
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- On a Night Like This was published in Warner hardcover (0-446-53141-3) in 2/04, an excerpt of which was published in the San Francisco Chronicle. It received early accolades from such notable authors as Pam Houston, Lalita Tademy, Amanda Eyre Ward, and Katherine Weber.
- Ellen Sussman imbues this heartbreaking tale with the same emotional intensity as Anita Shreve's Sea Glass (Little, Brown and Company, 4/02), Elizabeth Berg's Open House (Ballantine, 2001), and Sue Miller's While I Was Gone (Ballantine, 1999).
- On a Night Like This is the kind of timeless love story and commercial novel that will appeal to audiences in the trade paperback format.
- Ellen Sussman is the winner of short story contests in both Redbook and Paris Transcontinental.
- Available as a Time Warner AudioBook.