Adult Onset
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (540 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1941040314 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Ms. I gulped down Adult Onset in a single day.” (Emma Donoghue, author ROOM and FROG MUSIC)“A complex, troubling novel that cuts with surgical precision into the sinew and muscle of family life.” (Sarah Waters, author of PAYING GUESTS)“In Adult Onset, MacDonald has again delivered a masterpiece.” (Michelle Dean, the Globe & Mail) . MacDonald strikes just the right tone as she exposes the brutal undercurrents of domestic life a big, troubling and bravenovel.” (New York Times Book Review)“Adult Onset is the most accurate description of sol
Her works include Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Belle Moral: A Natural History, Fall on Your Knees, and The Way the Crow Flies. . She lives in Toronto with her wife and their two children. Ann-Marie MacDonald is a best-selling, award-winning novelist, playwright, actor, and broadcaster
Do other people notice the dents in the expensive refrigerator? How long will it take Mary Rose to realize that the car alarm that has been going off all morning is hers, and how on earth did the sharpest pair of scissors in the house wind up in her toddler’s hands? As frustrations mount, she experiences a flare-up of forgotten symptoms of a childhood illness that compel her to rethink her own upbringing, her own family history. She tries valiantly to balance the (mostly) solo parenting of two young children with the relentless needs of her aging parents. From the internationally best-selling author of Fall on Your Knees comes a story about the joy and agony of motherhood, the dark undercurrents that break and hold families together, and the transformative power of forgiveness. Mary Rose MacKinnon is a successful author of YA fiction doing a tour of duty as stay-at-home mom while her partner, Hilary, takes a turn focusing on her career. Over the course of one outwardly ordinary week, Mary Rose’s world threatens to unravel, and the specter of violence raises its head with dangerous implications for her and her children. But amid the hilarities of full-on domesticity arises a sense of dread. Adult Onset explores the pleasures and pressures of family bonds, powerful and yet so easily twisted and broken. Ann-M
Did not enjoy kulma Way too poorly written "stream of consciousness," too obviously biographical (evident from the huge amount of gravitas given to mundane life events), and the last dozen or so pages feel like she was forced to finish the book at gunpoint or something (rushed, silly, inconclus. Although not living up to Fall on your knees or Jeffrey Seidman Although not living up to Fall on your knees or As the crow flies, this is nonetheless an outstanding literary work.. Rachel Edwin said I wanted more plot and insight, and fewer tedious details. This is a tough one to review. I haven't read the author's other books, but I can appreciate that she is a solid writer. That said, I really didn't enjoy reading this book. I had to read this for my Book Club. We haven't had the meeting yet. I tried to get through it as fast