Robb Forman Dew - Free Library Land Online https://library.land/ ru Robb Forman Dew - Free Library Land Online DataLife Engine The Time of Her Life https://library.land/robb-forman-dew/432807-the_time_of_her_life.html https://library.land/robb-forman-dew/432807-the_time_of_her_life.html The Time of Her Life
Now restored to print--the acclaimed second novel by the National Book Award--winning author of Dale Loves Sophie to Death and The Evidence Against Her. Claudia and Avery Parks, lovers since high school, are now in their thirties. Intelligent, charming, sympathetic, they seem to be the ideal couple, the perfect dinner-party guests, almost everything people should be--except responsible. They are causally yet cruelly oblivious to the ways in which their words and actions affect other people, most particularly their talented 11-year-old daughter, who suffers the misfortune of being treated by her parents not as a child but as an equal.
- An engrossing domestic tale by a novelist of the first rank--an ideal selection for reading groups.
- Robb Forman Dew's first novel, Dale Loves Sophie to Death, received the National Book Award in 1982.<]]> Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:38:35 +0200 The Evidence Against Her https://library.land/robb-forman-dew/425858-the_evidence_against_her.html https://library.land/robb-forman-dew/425858-the_evidence_against_her.html The Evidence Against Her
Set against the landscape of a turn-of-the-century small mid-western town, this is a classic story, a love story, a story of a family that readers will ache to follow into the next generation.]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2001 03:42:48 +0200 Dale Loves Sophie to Death https://library.land/robb-forman-dew/421365-dale_loves_sophie_to_death.html https://library.land/robb-forman-dew/421365-dale_loves_sophie_to_death.html Dale Loves Sophie to Death
A novel that explores themes of familial and romantic bonds as it tells the story of a woman whose husband stays behind in New England while she journeys to her Midwestern hometown to spend a summer.]]> Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:15:28 +0200 Fortunate Lives https://library.land/robb-forman-dew/421366-fortunate_lives.html https://library.land/robb-forman-dew/421366-fortunate_lives.html Fortunate Lives
The Howells family are revisited in the summer of 1991. David, 18, is preparing to go to Harvard and Sarah is now 13. A young woman, Netta Breckenridge, enters the family's lives and creates a fragile domesticity for the Howells.]]> Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:15:28 +0200 The Truth of the Matter https://library.land/robb-forman-dew/432806-the_truth_of_the_matter.html https://library.land/robb-forman-dew/432806-the_truth_of_the_matter.html The Truth of the Matter
From a National Book Award winner comes a masterful novel set in the 1940s about a woman finding a new life for herself and her grown children after her husband's death.

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Dew returns to the Scofields of Washburn, Ohio, for a minutely observed, lucid and lyrical examination of family ties, the second in a trilogy (The Evidence Against Her). By the early days of WWII, widow Agnes Scofield (her husband, Warren, died in a car accident in 1930) has raised four children. Financially pressed and emotionally repressed, Agnes has learned to rely on her schoolteacher's salary, her lifelong friends Lily and Robert Butler, and her ability to keep her thoughts to herself. The Scofield household is first disrupted when the now adult children leave to join the war effort, and then again when they return with spouses, children and ideas of their own. Dew details inner turmoil with delicacy, wit and precision; she focuses on life's ordinary moments, studying them from various points of view and revealing layers of feeling. A Fourth of July picnic gets rehashed by town gossips; family myths are traced to their unlikely origins. As Washburn's postwar expansion casts the Scofield home into shabby respectability, the Scofields likewise change with the times, and Agnes returns to the Maine vacation house of the first novel to come to terms with truths she has spent a lifetime avoiding, in a moving yet unsentimental culmination to a remarkable personal journey. (Nov.)
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From Bookmarks Magazine

An old-fashioned novel in the best sense, The Truth of the Matter follows the evolution of a complex woman from wife and mother to independence in the 1940s. Elaborate family ties, centered on Agnes's familiar emotions and changing relationships with her children, form the heart of the novel. But Truth also convincingly juxtaposes the minutiae of daily life against a panorama of wartime America. The novel's unhurried plot concerned a few critics, who cited the first half as limp. Other reviewers compared Agnes's rich characterization to her more stiffly portrayed children. Either way, critics look forward to the third installment of the Scofield family saga.Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.
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