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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0345444566
ISBN-13: 9780345444561
Oct 2001
Publisher: Ballantine Books
287 pages
Reprint
Ballantine Reader's Circle
Language: English |
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Synopsis
The serene Goodman family's lives are shattered when a high school boy is struck by lightning during a football game. Greg Goodman was the coach. Should the team have been playing during a storm? Greg's guilty feelings lead to a breakdown of sorts, in which he has an affair with an old friend, then seeks out the injured boy's mother, who wreaks further havoc. Told from Greg's point of view alternating with that of his wife, Patty, the novel explores a situation in which love manages to survive in the face of terrible odds.
| Details | | Series: | Ballantine Reader's Circle |
| Size | | Length: | 287 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 9.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Matson covers the familiar territory of suburban marital angst in this caring but rather enervated novel....Despite the lightning at the center, a novel that throws off few sparks."
Minogue
"Matson proceeds with plain prose that mirrors the rather prosaic atmosphere her characters inhabit. People and places get little physical description . One thing Matson nicely demonstrates is that if we will not claim the world, it will claim us, sometimes violently. What these characters lack is character itself. Bereft of a sense of right and wrong, they attempt to meet life's challenges by figuring out what sort of attitude might be appropriate. On discovering that their daughter has procured birth-control pills, the parents wish to react with authority but are instead left with perspectives and moods. Gregg and Patty remain nice people, but they are nice people for no good reason, which leaves them in a jam come foul weather."
Washington Post Book World - Scott Morris (04/23/2000)
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