Research Catalog

Title

Escape / Barbara Delinsky.

Author

Delinsky, Barbara

Publication

New York : Doubleday, c2011.

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Holdings

Details

Description

308 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Emily Aulenbach is thirty, a lawyer married to a lawyer, working in Manhattan. An idealist, she had once dreamed of representing victims of corporate abuse, but now she spends her days in a cubicle talking with victims of tainted bottled water--and she's on the bottler's side.

Subject

• Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction
• Self-actualization (Psychology) in women > Fiction
• Women lawyers > Fiction

Genre/Form

Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Paperback -Have you ever woken up in a cold sweat, thinking that you've taken a wrong turn and are stuck in a life you don't want? One Friday morning, Emily suddenly realises that somewhere in life she has chosen the wrong path. She needs to escape; from a job that is suffocating her and a personal life that isn't making her happy. At 32, Emily works as a lawyer in New York, for a company that focuses solely on how many hours she logs, sympathising with victims of tainted bottled water, whilst working for the defence of the company that produced it. To top it off, she barely sees her husband, James, and their attempts to start a family have as yet proven unsuccessful. Realising the fruitlessness and misery of the life she has created for herself, Emily packs a bag and leaves the city, knowing only that she needs to work out what she wants to do with her life and who she wants to be. Praise for Barbara Delinksy: Fans of Jodi Picoult will love this ... a poignant family story . (Daily Express). Delinsky's writing is fluid and makes for a hard-to-put-down book as she deftly blends tense family drama with heavy political issues . (Glamour). ... a sensitive exploration of the prejudices that many hold but few express. ..a page turner that asks serious questions about America's relationship with its past . (The Times). A really interesting and sometimes harrowing tale that makes for compelling reading . (Sun).

ISBN

• 9780385532723 (hbk.)
• 0385532725 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2011010758

OCLC

671703670

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library