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Mourning Ruby Hardback - 2004
by Dunmore, Helen
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Abandoned as a baby, Rebecca has no tie to her parents other than the men's size-eleven shoebox in which she was found. Yet she grows from a child of no one and nowhere into a woman who creates her own unorthodox but tender family. First, there is Joe-a brilliant historian and loyal friend who longs for more than Rebecca can give him, but whose devotion sustains her. Adam, Joe's friend, is the man who becomes her husband. And Ruby is the daughter whom Rebecca loves with almost unbearable intensity. Then this hopeful life is dealt a blow that could shatter the strongest ties. Rebecca flees her marriage, and Adam sinks into a life numbed by routine and isolation. In the end, it is Joe who enables them to find the way back to understanding, and offers Rebecca a history that she can call her own. Illuminated by both sorrow and vivid joy, Mourning Ruby is ultimately about the transcendent power of storytelling itself.
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Details
- Title Mourning Ruby
- Author Dunmore, Helen
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 278
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Regan Books, East Rutherford, NJ
- Publication date 2004
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1560798855
- ISBN 9780399151484 / 0399151486
- Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 9.14 x 6.3 x 0.99 in (23.22 x 16.00 x 2.51 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Category Fiction - Psychological Suspense
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Friendship
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003054812
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 1
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Summary
More than thirty years ago, a mother laid her newborn baby in a shoebox and left it by the bins in the backyard of an Italian restaurant. Now the baby, Rebecca, is a mother herself, and she and her husband Adam are about to experience the greatest tragedy parents can face. Like a Russian doll, this novel opens to reveal a brilliant richness of stories locked within.MOURNING RUBY is Helen Dunmore's most ambitious novel to date, hugely moving and strongly plotted, about memory and history - both personal and public - about love, loss and mourning, and ultimately about the most important relationship in any novel - that of the reader to the writer.
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