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978-0-9635967-7-2
0-9635967-7-2
$10.95 paperback
6" x 9"
234 pages
Banks Channel Books
Read the book, then rent the film starring Susan Sarandon and Sam
Shepard!
For more information on Ellyn Bache, please visit www.ellynbache.com
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Vivid and
heartwarming....The 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut provides the
crisis element in this moving novel about a family waiting to hear if a
son and brother has survived the blast...Bache's language is fluid and
funny, and one comes to care about every one of her characters.
--Publisher's Weekly
From page one,
this book is tense....Not only does Bache know how to develop a
page-turner, she also knows her characters. Like Anne Tyler, Ellyn Bache
draws her characters from the inside.
--Baltimore Sun
This warm-hearted
novel works on a number of levels--as a suspense tale, as a family
drama, even as comedy--but its truest achievement is its
recognition of the complexities of parenting. --Booklist
As the mother of seven boys,
Mag has had a life filled with unusual challenges. But the news that one
of her sons is missing, believed dead, after the bombing of his Marine
barracks overseas is almost more than she can handle.
Her husband and her sons all
gather around her. As they anxiously await more news they are forced to
rediscover the deep reservoir of love they once shared.
about the author
Ellyn Bache is also the author of Festival in Fire Season, The
Value of Kindness, which won the Willa Cather Fiction Prize; and a
nonfiction book, Culture Clash, about sponsoring refugees. She
lives in South Carolina.
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