Author: | Geoffrey Becker |
Subcategory: | Genre Fiction |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Tin House Books; 1 edition (February 16, 2010) |
Pages: | 301 pages |
Category: | Fiction and Literature |
Rating: | 4.9 |
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With her father’s help, she’d bought her mother a book called The History of Photography from a discount catalog, something she felt reasonably certain qualified as the worst present ever given anyone.
With her father’s help, she’d bought her mother a book called The History of Photography from a discount catalog, something she felt reasonably certain qualified as the worst present ever given anyone. She dreaded the moment when her mother would open it. She turned back.
It didn’t have a view of much of anything. Bernice pushed open the door. Afternoon, and the place was empty ecials, and a large mirror be. . Afternoon, and the place was empty ecials, and a large mirror behind the bar itself that created the illusion of a bigger space. The opposite wall was exposed brick, hung with dusty, black-and-white publicity photographs of blues performers, some of them signed. She examined one at random: Luther Slideman James
Geoffrey Becker's fantastic Hot Springs works hard to conceal its own scope and ambition, but the book's coyness (not to mention its humor) only heightens the uncanny, moving power of the question at its core: When it comes down.
Geoffrey Becker's fantastic Hot Springs works hard to conceal its own scope and ambition, but the book's coyness (not to mention its humor) only heightens the uncanny, moving power of the question at its core: When it comes down to it, how far will people go for love?. Throughout the novel, characters ignore their own better judgments, creating a thrilling psychological
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Geoffrey Becker’s fantastic Hot Springs works hard to conceal its own scope and ambition, but the book’s coyness (not to mention its humor) only heightens the uncanny, moving power of the question at its core: When it comes down to it, how far will people go for love? Pretty far, i.
ISBN 978-0-312-30456-0.
Geoffrey Becker (born 1959) is an American short story writer, and novelist. ISBN 978-0-312-30456-0.
In Hot Springs, his rollicking new novel, Geoffrey Becker has assembled a delicate collage of damaged souls. Becker gives them to us with such earnest and empathetic insight that he makes us root for even the most ungracious among them. -Rachel Rosenblit, Elle. Becker demonstrates great skill in depicting distasteful characters whose unhappy experiences are so morbidly fascinating and so bloated with perplexing uncertainty as to provide their.
Compelling and darkly comic, Hot Springs is the road-trip love story about a young woman who gave up her child for adoption and her quest, five years later, to steal the child back.
Vibrant, sexy, and quite possibly crazy, Bernice is determined to reclaim the child she gave up for adoption five years ago. She convinces her boyfriend, Landis, to help carry out her plan, but once the abduction is accomplished, Bernice―whose own mother was given to manic episodes and strange behavior―is plagued with doubts. Will Landis stay with her, given her volatile personality and his own drifter past? Will she and Landis both end up in jail for this crime? And, perhaps most importantly, will she fail at being a mother? Dovetailed with this is the story of the conservative Christian adoptive parents, Tessa and David, and the effect the kidnapping has on their troubled marriage. As Bernice and Landis journey across America, from Colorado Springs to Tucson to Baltimore, Bernice must confront her past and the secrets she has kept.