Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

CHARLIE`S DAUGHTER by Susan Child
212 strana
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First-novelist Child starts off with a 1981 lunch between 64-year-old aristocrat Charles Swarm and his 21-year-old illegitimate daughter Kate--virtually their first meeting. But most of the story is a flashback beginning in 1959, when Michael MacDonnell, caretaker of the Swann estate outside of Boston, is killed in a car crash, leaving his devastated young widow Anne . . . who is allowed to stay on at the caretaker`s cottage by Michael`s boss Charlie Swarm. And soon Charlie, wed to barren, primly beautiful Alicia and smitten by earthy Anne (at Michael`s funeral her eyes reveal "a remarkable blend of dignity, grief, and sensuality"), is visiting the widow for hot sessions heavy on clitoral stimulation. Pregnancy ensues, of course--so noble Anne weds Hugh Finch, the new caretaker, thus letting society-conscious Charlie off the hook. But neither marriage holds up over the years: Anne leaves Hugh (who`s always suspected that baby Kate wasn`t his) for nice teacher Alan and a new life of intellectual self-improvement;