| Halfway House Contributor(s): Noel, Katharine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802142915 ISBN-13: 9780802142917 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $11.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2007 Annotation: Set in a small town in New Hampshire, this novel is the story of a girl's psychotic break and her family's subsequent turmoil. With grace and precision rarely seen in a first novel, Noel guides readers through a world where love is imperfect, and where longing for an imagined ideal can both destroy one family's happiness and offer redemption. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 81104192 |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 5.38" W x 8.43" (0.96 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Geographic Orientation - New Hampshire - Topical - Family - Topical - Mentally Challenged |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One day, Angie Voorster--diligent student, all-star swimmer and ivy-league bound high school senior--dives to the bottom of a pool and stays there. In that moment, everything the Voorster family believes they know about each other changes. Katharine Noel's extraordinary debut illuminates the fault lines in one family's relationships, as well as the complex emotional ties that bind them together. With grace and precision rarely seen in a first novel, Noel guides her reader through a world where love is imperfect, and where longing for an imagined ideal can both destroy one family's happiness and offer them redemption. Halfway House introduces a powerful, eloquent new literary voice. |
