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Description for Helpless
Paperback. Clean copy in very good condition. Some age and shelf wear.
Celia is the struggling single mother of an exceptionally, angelically beautiful child: nine-year-old Rachel. All too aware of the precarious balance of the life she has built for the two of them, she worries about her daughter's longing for the father she has never met. When Rachel disappears one summer night during a blackout, Celia is stricken with guilt and terror about what her choices might now mean for her daughter's fate. The media coverage of the abduction is tremendous, running nationwide. Closely monitoring events is Ron, an appliance repairman who lives in the neighbourhood. Though Rachel is a stranger ... Read more
Celia is the struggling single mother of an exceptionally, angelically beautiful child: nine-year-old Rachel. All too aware of the precarious balance of the life she has built for the two of them, she worries about her daughter's longing for the father she has never met. When Rachel disappears one summer night during a blackout, Celia is stricken with guilt and terror about what her choices might now mean for her daughter's fate. The media coverage of the abduction is tremendous, running nationwide. Closely monitoring events is Ron, an appliance repairman who lives in the neighbourhood. Though Rachel is a stranger ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Little Brown London
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780316027441
SKU
KNH0012158
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Barbara Gowdy
Barbara Gowdy is a prize-winning Canadian author. THE ROMANTIC was selected for the Booker longlist, while THE WHITE BONE and MISTER SANDMAN have both been picked as TLS Books of the Year. Two of Barbara Gowdy's works of fiction have been made into films.
Reviews for Helpless
From the accomplished Canadian novelist and short-story writer, an all-consuming tale of child abduction ... An assured, perceptive, deftly delivered story KIRKUS starred review Gowdy cleverly makes us wait for the kidnapping we know is coming, forcing us to watch as Ron moves closer and closer, like a shark circling its prey ... A page-turner that finds tension not in ... Read more