| California Fiction Contributor(s): Meschery, Joanne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520213424 ISBN-13: 9780520213425 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $28.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1998 Annotation: Hedy's private world is being stretched thin on all fronts--thanks to the emotional demands placed on her by her teenage daughter, stroke-victim father, and speed-skiing legend husband. As the political issues of the outside world encroach on her increasingly fragile private one, Hedy learns to take a side--her side--for the first time. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 97031398 |
| Series: California Fiction |
| Physical Information: 2.57" H x 7.35" W x 8.06" (0.71 lbs) 284 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Geographic Orientation - California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Spanning the 100-day Persian Gulf War and a small California town's girls' basketball season, Home and Away is the story of Hedy Gallagher Castle, a woman who has reached a crossroads in her life. A straddler by nature, Hedy finds herself doing a balancing act on all fronts as her daughter approaches womanhood, her father enters a no-man's-land of bewilderment after a stroke, and her husband departs in search of the lost athletic glory of his youth. At the same time, the divisive political issues of the greater world-the Gulf War, abortion, gay rights, and fundamentalism-encroach on Hedy's increasingly fragile private one. As the tensions mount, Hedy learns to take a side-her own side-for the first time in her life, reawakening to a sense of love and loss. |