| Sleep Toward Heaven Contributor(s): Ward, Amanda Eyre (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060582294 ISBN-13: 9780060582296 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2004 Annotation: A small-press sensation in hardcover, "Sleep Toward Heaven" tells the story of three disparate women who are irrevocably connected by one crime and a brutal Texas summer on death row. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Crime - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2003060899 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.32" W x 8.07" (0.49 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: By the New York Times bestselling author of Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick The Jetsetters, the impressive debut novel about three disparate women who are irrevocably connected by one crime and a brutal Texas summer on death row. In Gatestown, Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Karen awaits her execution on Death Row. In Manhattan, Franny Wren, a twenty-nine-year-old doctor, plans her wedding to her college sweetheart and resists the urge to run from a carefully crafted and seemingly satisfying life. In Austin, Texas, Celia, a brassy young librarian, mourns her murdered husband and struggles to find a sense of self, wholeness and a will to live. A luminous story of murder and desire, solitude and grace, fate pushes these eerily recognizable women together, culminating in a revelation of the possibility of faith, the responsibility of friendship, the value of life and the execution of a serial murderer. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ward, Amanda Eyre: - Amanda Eyre Ward was born in New York City and graduated from Williams College and the University of Montana. Her short stories have been published in Story Quarterly, Mississippi Review, New Delta Review, Salon.com, and Austin Chronicle. Ward is a regular contributor to the Austin Chronicle. This is her first novel. |