ISBN: 0718179730
ISBN13: 9780718179731
The Break
$8.89
ISBN: 0718179730
ISBN13: 9780718179731
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A read copy, but remains in excellent condition.
Formats
Conditions
A read copy, but remains in excellent condition.
Book Overview
Una pareja casi perfecta no es solo una historia de amor, es una historia sobre seguir enamorado pase lo que pase. Es Marian Keyes en un divertido y formidable estado puro. Amy tiene el marido perfecto. Hugh es guapo, es un buen tipo y un padre maravilloso. Pero un d a, de pronto, le dice que quiere que se tomen un descanso. Que necesita estar seis meses lejos de casa, de ella y de la familia, y viajar un tiempo como soltero. Aunque asegura que solo ser medio a o y que volver , pues no dejado de amarla, Amy teme que no sea as . Porque en seis meses pueden pasar muchas cosas... Y si cuando Hugh vuelva, si es que vuelve, ya no es el mismo? Y si ella tambi n ha cambiado? Pero lo peor es qu hacer mientras tanto. Debe seguir si ndole fiel o puede dejarse llevar? Est claro que en la vida no hay que dar nada por sentado, y Amy est a punto de averiguarlo por s misma. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Amy's husband Hugh has run away to 'find himself'. But will he ever come back? 'Myself and Hugh . . . We're taking a break.' 'A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?' If only. Amy's husband Hugh says he isn't leaving her. He still loves her, he's just taking a break - from their marriage, their children and, most of all, from their life together. Six months to lose himself in South East Asia. And there is nothing Amy can say or do about it. Yes, it's a mid-life crisis, but let's be clear: a break isn't a break up - yet . . . However, for Amy it's enough to send her - along with her extended family of gossips, misfits and troublemakers - teetering over the edge. For a lot can happen in six-months. When Hugh returns, if he returns, will he be the same man she married? Will Amy be the same woman? Because if Hugh is on a break from their marriage, then so is she . . . The Break is a story about the choices we make and how those choices help to make us. It is Marian Keyes at her funniest, wisest and brilliant best. This description may be from another edition of this product.
- Format:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- ISBN:
- 0718179730
- ISBN13:
- 9780718179731
- Release Date:
- October 2017
- Publisher:
- Michael Joseph
- Length:
- 400 Pages
- Weight:
- 1.67 lbs.
- Dimensions:
- 9.2″ × 1.7″ × 6.0″
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More by Marian Keyes
Marian Keyes is the bestselling author of nine novels and two essay collections. She lives in Ireland with her husband and their two imaginary dogs.
Customer Reviews
Turned me onto romance!
4.5 / 5 (rounded up) This was my first dalliance with romance, “chick lit,” “women’s fiction,” or whatever you’d like to call it. I’d bought it on a lark at my favorite indie store, knowing that after reading so many thrillers, horror stories, and crime non-fiction (not true crime, but MANUALS), I knew I’d need something light at some point. Finally, I ran into a discussion on Twitter about how romances require a “happily ever after” or at least a “happy for now.” At first I argued for more complexity than that, but soon I saw that if the endings of an entire genre of fiction had to end one way, these authors are masters of suspense. If readers go in knowing —REQUIRING— there be a happy ending, where is the thrill in reading? I’m writing a crime thriller/slasher from the point of view of the killer. I need to learn more about creating suspense. So I decided to pick up THE BREAK. As you’ve probably read in other reviews, Amy’s husband Hugh decides one day that he’s leaving her and their family of three girls to travel the world and figure himself out. Amy has no say in this: he won’t be in contact and he’ll be acting like a single man. Amy can do the same, but with three young women to care for, a small PR business that’s always JUST afloat and requires her to fly from home in Ireland to work in London every week for two days, high-profile (and high-maintenance) clients, friends and family yearning to spit venom at Hugh while Amy mourns the sudden loss of him in her life, a mother with a new set of mysterious G&T friends…and a man from Amy’s past, bringing lip-licking tension just at the time she has no husband to use as an excuse anymore… Well, things get complicated. And that’s not even the half of it. I loved the characters and the length Keyes gave herself to develop them into real people, even if they were only standing on the sidelines. By the end, you see how each of the many plot lines interweave into a cohesive message, which is a tricky thing to pull off. And suspense? I was turning pages and losing sleep over these people! Of course, I wasn’t terribly fond of the ending. With romance you get “happily ever after,” not ambiguity and complexity of life without love. But as far as it could have been wrapped up traditionally? Keyes did everything but tell the genre conventions where they could go. Perhaps endings like that seem out of reach and then I can’t believe they’re real? Perhaps I wanted it all to be tied up in a different bow and that’s never what I was going to get. Perhaps romance isn’t for me…but that’s strange, because I’ve definitely got a craving for more!
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