Synopses & Reviews
Trophy House is an extraordinary and complex novel, at one level a romantic thriller, at another a deeply satisfying story about the disintegration of a marriage and the consequences for all concerned -- that rare piece of fiction that is at once thrilling, grown-up and completely believable.
It begins with the construction of a totally inappropriate and enormous house -- a "trophy house" -- which unexpectedly comes to threaten the tranquillity of what appears to be one woman's perfect life and marriage. Dannie Faber has lots of reasons to feel blessed. A children's book illustrator, she shares a loving marriage with Tom, an M.I.T. professor, with whom she divides her time between one of Boston's finest suburbs and a beloved beach house in Truro, on Cape Cod. And then, for reasons she could not possibly have foreseen, Dannie's life begins to unravel.
With Trophy House, Anne Bernays --
Review
"Anne Bernays has done it again. Nobody writes about the struggles of love and family from the inside out better than she does.
Trophy House is a superbly written tale that, like all of Bernays's novels, uses humor and wit to go deep into the pores of our
souls."
-- Jim Lehrer
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"It was a continual surprise."
-- Annie Dillard