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The Violet Hour: A Novel Hardcover - 2013
by Hill, Katherine
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- Title The Violet Hour: A Novel
- Author Hill, Katherine
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition /
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 354
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York, NY
- Date 2013-07-16
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52YZZZ027B78_ns
- ISBN 9781476710327 / 1476710325
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1.3 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 3.30 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Adultery
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012050791
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
A pitch-perfect, emotionally riveting debut novel about the fracturing of a marriage and a family âÈ' from an award-winning young writer with superb storytelling instincts.
Life hasnâÈçt always been perfect for Abe and Cassandra Green, but an afternoon on the San Francisco Bay might be as good as it gets. Abe is a rheumatologist, piloting his coveted new boat. Cassandra is a sculptor, finally gaining modest attention for her art. Their beautiful daughter, Elizabeth, is heading to Harvard in the fall. Somehow, theyâÈçve made things work. But then, out of nowhere, they plunge into a terrible fight. Cassandra has been unfaithful. In a fit of fury, Abe throws himself off the boat.
A love story that begins with the end of a marriage, The Violet Hour follows a modern family through past and present, from the funeral home in the Washington suburbs where Cassandra and her siblings grow up to the San Francisco public health clinic where Abe and Cassandra first meet. As the Greens navigate the passage of timeâÈ'the expectations of youth, the concessions of middle age, the headiness of desire, the bitterness of lossâÈ'they must come to terms with the fragility of their intimacy, the strange legacies they inherit from their parents, and the kind of people they want to be. Exquisitely written, The Violet Hour is the deeply moving story of a family suddenly ripped apart, but then just possibly reborn.
Life hasnâÈçt always been perfect for Abe and Cassandra Green, but an afternoon on the San Francisco Bay might be as good as it gets. Abe is a rheumatologist, piloting his coveted new boat. Cassandra is a sculptor, finally gaining modest attention for her art. Their beautiful daughter, Elizabeth, is heading to Harvard in the fall. Somehow, theyâÈçve made things work. But then, out of nowhere, they plunge into a terrible fight. Cassandra has been unfaithful. In a fit of fury, Abe throws himself off the boat.
A love story that begins with the end of a marriage, The Violet Hour follows a modern family through past and present, from the funeral home in the Washington suburbs where Cassandra and her siblings grow up to the San Francisco public health clinic where Abe and Cassandra first meet. As the Greens navigate the passage of timeâÈ'the expectations of youth, the concessions of middle age, the headiness of desire, the bitterness of lossâÈ'they must come to terms with the fragility of their intimacy, the strange legacies they inherit from their parents, and the kind of people they want to be. Exquisitely written, The Violet Hour is the deeply moving story of a family suddenly ripped apart, but then just possibly reborn.