Papa's Cord

By Mary Pleshette Willis

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679446966
• ISBN13: 9780679446965
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

BEAUTIFUL WRITING--WONDERFUL STORY--

This first novel by Mary Pleshette Willis is , in a word, brilliant. Ms Willis' writing is reminiscent of the first novels of Dorothy Allison, Anne Tyler, Judith Guest and Sue Miller. Her use of language is first-rate. The story she tells, could well have become just another "Jewish girl coming of age novel." Yet, this author makes her central character, Josie, an authentic, witty, exasperating, and completely unpredictable woman. I found myself laughing out loud and than, before I knew it I was weeping. This is a very affecting work and I would highly recommend this novel to those who truly love the combination of beautiful writing and a wonderful story.

A quietly passionate story.

A young well-to-do Jewish girl's coming of age in New York and her career as a screenwriter is documented in Papa's Chord, a novel which tells of Josie's realizations about her beloved father, who is a womanizer. Her dreams of married life change when her fiance breaks his neck in a swimming accident, and when they are unable to completely move beyond his tragedy in this quietly passionate story.

absorbing read, funny, heartfelt

Mary Willis' first novel is the laugh-out-loud, touching story of a woman who never loses her sense of humor--and even manages to grow up gracefully--despite trying circumstances: a withholding, angry father; a husband crippled in a freak accident; a long struggle with infertility; and the insanity that is Hollywood. Papa's Cord grabs you on the first page and doesn't let you go until you've turned the last.