Heat Wave
Penelope Lively$13.59
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It is a long, hot summer at World's End, a two-family grey stone cottage in the English countryside. Pauline is editing a romance novel in the smaller dwelling, and the larger part is occupied by her daughter, Teresa; Teresa's baby; and her husband, Maurice, a writer, whose infatuation with his editor's girlfriend is growing.
Pauline fears for Teresa, who is passionately in love with her husband, for she senses Maurice's imminent betrayal. She remembers a time when her possessive passion for Teresa's father eroded her own youth. A stunning and unexpected denouncement irrevocably changes the order of things for this family, whose intimacy the reader abandons reluctantly at novel's end.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 09/06/1997
ISBN: 9780060928551
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.31w x 0.54d
Review Citations: New York Times 09/28/1997 pg. 36
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1997 pg. 97