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The Resource Silver : a novel, Hilma Wolitzer, (electronic resource)
Silver : a novel, Hilma Wolitzer, (electronic resource)
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The item Silver : a novel, Hilma Wolitzer, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
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- Summary
- Silver revisits Paulette and Howard, the couple introduced in In the Flesh, and a marriage, once miraculously mended, faces its end again Paulette has decided to leave her husband. As the twenty-fifth anniversary of their hasty marriage nears, the thought of another year sleeping alongside Howard feels suffocating. Though they were happy years ago, he has always resented her for trapping him with her pregnancy, forcing himas he sees itinto married life and the end of his youthful fun. They have both been unfaithful, and the wounds of their past indiscretions have never fully healed. And so she's made the decision to leave himbut her plans are derailed when Howard suffers a sudden heart attack. Thrown into action by Howard's fragile health, Paulette must decide whose survival is more important. He may not live through her desertion, but can she give up her determination for a new beginning? In Silver, Hilma Wolitzer delivers a sensitive, thought-provoking, and startlingly frank novel of old ties and the yearning to start again
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Isbn
- 9781453287873
- Label
- Silver : a novel
- Title
- Silver
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Hilma Wolitzer
- Subject
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- trueLove stories
- trueSelf-fulfillment in women
- truePeople who have had heart attacks
- trueHeart attack
- trueNew York City
- trueElectronic books
- trueDiscontent in women
- trueFreedom
- trueFaithfulness
- Married people -- Fiction
- truePsychological fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- trueMiddle-aged persons
- trueHusband and wife
- trueMarriage
- trueLove
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Silver revisits Paulette and Howard, the couple introduced in In the Flesh, and a marriage, once miraculously mended, faces its end again Paulette has decided to leave her husband. As the twenty-fifth anniversary of their hasty marriage nears, the thought of another year sleeping alongside Howard feels suffocating. Though they were happy years ago, he has always resented her for trapping him with her pregnancy, forcing himas he sees itinto married life and the end of his youthful fun. They have both been unfaithful, and the wounds of their past indiscretions have never fully healed. And so she's made the decision to leave himbut her plans are derailed when Howard suffers a sudden heart attack. Thrown into action by Howard's fragile health, Paulette must decide whose survival is more important. He may not live through her desertion, but can she give up her determination for a new beginning? In Silver, Hilma Wolitzer delivers a sensitive, thought-provoking, and startlingly frank novel of old ties and the yearning to start again
- Summary
- Paulie Flax decides to leave Howard, her unfaithful husband of nearly twenty-five years, but on the eve of her defection, Howard suffers a heart attack and belatedly realizes that he truly loves Paulie
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- 063272
- Cataloging source
- Midwest
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- Wolitzer, Hilma
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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- hoopla digital
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- Married people
- New York (N.Y.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Silver : a novel, Hilma Wolitzer, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Color
- multicolored
- Control code
- MWT11549864
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9781453287873
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Publisher number
- MWT11549864
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Label
- Silver : a novel, Hilma Wolitzer, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Color
- multicolored
- Control code
- MWT11549864
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9781453287873
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Publisher number
- MWT11549864
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
Subject
- trueDiscontent in women
- trueElectronic books
- trueFaithfulness
- trueFreedom
- trueHeart attack
- trueHusband and wife
- trueLove
- trueLove stories
- trueMarriage
- Married people -- Fiction
- trueMiddle-aged persons
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- trueNew York City
- truePeople who have had heart attacks
- truePsychological fiction
- trueSelf-fulfillment in women
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