Research Catalog

Title

Heartwood : a novel / Belva Plain.

Author

Plain, Belva.

Publication

New York : Delacorte Press, c2011.

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Holdings

Details

Description

311 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often finds those sensibilities called into question when confronted with the choices her children have made.

Subject

• Jewish women > Fiction
• Jewish families > Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Domestic fiction.
• Domestic fiction
• Fiction
• Fiction.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often finds those sensibilities called into question when confronted with the choices her children have made.For one of Iris's daughters, it's the choice of a fresh start in New York City -- and a last chance to save her troubled marriage. While Laura and Robbie cope with an impending separation and its effect on Iris's young granddaughter, Iris herself must come to grips with the discovery of a long-held family secret. But it's an emotional parting of another kind that looms most prominently on Iris's horizon -- as neither her beloved husband, nor the solidity of her own marriage, is immune to the ravages of time.

ISBN

• 9780385344128 (hbk.)
• 0385344120 (hbk.)
• 9780440339939 (ebk.)
• 0440339936 (ebk.)

LCCN

^^2010042030

OCLC

646113469

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library