Still Life With Bread Crumbs: A Novel
Language: English
Contemporary Fiction Contemporary Women Family Saga Genre Fiction Literary Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Sagas United States Women's Fiction
Publisher: Random House
Published: Jan 28, 2014
Description:
A superb love story from Anna Quindlen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rise and Shine, Blessings, and* A Short Guide to a Happy Life
Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.
Brilliantly written, powerfully observed, Still Life with Bread Crumbs* is a deeply moving and often very funny story of unexpected love, and a stunningly crafted journey into the life of a woman, her heart, her mind, her days, as she discovers that life is a story with many levels, a story that is longer and more exciting than she ever imagined.
Praise for Anna Quindlen
About Every Last One
“Quindlen captures both the beauty and the breathtaking fragility of family life.”*—People
“Packs an emotional punch . . . Quindlen succeeds at conveying the transience of everyday worries and the never-ending boundaries of a mother’s love.”—The Washington Post
*
About Rise and Shine
“A writerly achievement.”*—The New York Times
“[A] classic story.”—The Washington Post Book World
*About Blessings
“A polished gem of a novel . . . lovingly crafted, beautifully written.”—The Miami Herald
*
“Richly imagined.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
About Black and Blue
“Quindlen writes with . . . power and grace.”—The Boston Globe
“Beautifully paced . . . [keeps] the reader anxiously turning pages.”—The New York Times Book Review
*About One True Thing
“A triumph.”—San Francisco Chronicle
From the Hardcover edition.
Review
“Quindlen has made a home at the top of the bestsellers lists with novels that capture the grace and frailty of everyday life, and her latest work is sure to take her there again. With spare, elegant prose, she crafts a poignant glimpse into the inner life of an aging woman who discovers that reality contains much more color than her own celebrated black-and-white images.”—Library Journal
“Quindlen has always excelled at capturing telling details in a story, and she does so again in this quiet, powerful novel, showing the charged emotions that teem beneath the surface of daily life.”—Publisher’s Weekly
“A Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and star in the pantheon of domestic fiction (Every Last One, 2010), Quindlen presents instantly recognizable characters who may be appealingly warm and nonthreatening, but that only serves to drive home her potent message that it’s never too late to embrace life’s second chances.”—Booklist
“Profound … engaging”—Kirkus
Praise for Anna Quindlen
About Every Last One
“Quindlen captures both the beauty and the breathtaking fragility of family life.”*—People
“Packs an emotional punch . . . Quindlen succeeds at conveying the transience of everyday worries and the never-ending boundaries of a mother’s love.”—The Washington Post
*
About Rise and Shine
“A writerly achievement.”*—The New York Times
“[A] classic story.”—The Washington Post Book World
*About Blessings
“A polished gem of a novel . . . lovingly crafted, beautifully written.”—The Miami Herald
*
“Richly imagined.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
About Black and Blue
“Quindlen writes with . . . power and grace.”—The Boston Globe
“Beautifully paced . . . [keeps] the reader anxiously turning pages.”—The New York Times Book Review
*About One True Thing
“A triumph.”—San Francisco Chronicle
About the Author
Anna Quindlen is a novelist and journalist whose work has appeared on fiction, nonfiction, and self-help bestseller lists. She is the author of seven novels: Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Blessings, Rise and Shine, Every Last One, and Still Life with Bread Crumbs. Her memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, published in 2012, was a number one New York Times bestseller. Her book A Short Guide to a Happy Life has sold more than a million copies. While a columnist at The New York Times she won the Pulitzer Prize and published two collections, Living Out Loud and Thinking Out Loud. Her Newsweek columns were collected in Loud and Clear.