Lawn Boy, Evison Jonathan

Автор: Evison Jonathan
Название: This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!
ISBN: 1616206012 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616206017
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 17460.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "Evison's writing crackles on the page."*

With Bernard, her husband of fifty-five years, now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively sets sail alone on an Alaskan cruise that her late husband had planned. But what Harriet hoped would be a voyage leading to a new lease on life becomes a wildly surprising and revelatory journey into her past.
Jonathan Evison has crafted a bighearted novel with an endearing heroine at the helm. Part dysfunctional love story, part poignant exploration of mother-daughter relationships, nothing is what it seems in this bittersweet tale, told with humor and humanity.

"An irresistible, inventive novel full of important ideas about how we live our lives as parents, children, partners, and human beings." --Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins

"Infused with Evison's characteristic empathy and heart and humor . . . He's got a talent for character, emotion and pacing." --Los Angeles Times

"Open-hearted, effervescent." --The Washington Post

"Wildly entertaining." --The Seattle Times

"This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance is a pleasurable mix of the crazy escapades, changing relationships and thoughtful reflections that make up a life." --The Toronto Star

"Slowly, and with admirable, dark precision, Evison lays Harriet bare . . . And with Harriet Chance--poor, frustrated, flummoxed Harriet--Evison has found his ideal foil." --NPR.com

"It's hard to imagine the reader who won't be moved by this lively, lovely work." --The Denver Post

Автор: Evison Jonathan
Название: The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
ISBN: 1616203153 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616203153
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 17460.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:

In The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving (releasing June 24, 2016 as a Netflix Original Film titled The Fundamentals of Caring, starring Paul Rudd and Selena Gomez), Jonathan Evison, author of the new novel This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance and the New York Times bestseller West of Here, has crafted a novel of the heart, a story of unlikely heroes in a grand American landscape.

For Ben Benjamin, all has been lost--his wife, his family, his home, his livelihood. Hoping to find a new direction, he enrolls in a night class called The Fundamentals of Caregiving, where he will learn to take care of people with disabilities. He is instructed about professionalism, about how to keep an emotional distance between client and provider, and about the art of inserting catheters while avoiding liability. But when Ben is assigned his first client--a tyrannical nineteen-year-old boy named Trevor, who is in the advanced stages of Duchenne muscular dystrophy--he soon discovers that the endless service checklists have done nothing to prepare him for the reality of caring for a fiercely stubborn, sexually frustrated teenager who has an ax to grind with the whole world.

Over time, the relationship between Ben and Trev, which had begun with mutual misgivings, evolves into a close friendship, and the traditional boundaries between patient and caregiver begin to blur. The bond between them strengthens as they embark on a road trip to visit Trev's ailing father--a journey rerouted by a series of bizarre roadside attractions that propel them into an impulsive adventure disrupted by one birth, two arrests, a freakish dust storm, and a six-hundred-mile cat-and-mouse pursuit by a mysterious brown Buick Skylark. By the end of that journey, Trev has had his first taste of love, and Ben has found a new reason to love life.

Bursting with energy and filled with moments of absolute beauty, this big-hearted and inspired novel ponders life's terrible surprises as well as what it takes to truly care for another human being.