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Open House, Elizabeth Berg
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2000
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- Titel
- Open House
- Untertitel
- A Novel
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Elizabeth Berg
- Verlag
- Random House
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2000
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 241
- ISBN10
- 009179384X
- ISBN13
- 9780091793845
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Romantik, Frauen, Gegenwartsliteratur, Zeitgenössische Liebesromane
- Bewertung
- 3,7 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 'Maybe Freud didn't know the answer to what women want, but Elizabeth Berg does.'USA Today'You are bending over the dryer, pulling out the still-warm sheets, and the knowledge walks up your backbone. You stare at the man you love and you are staring at nothing; he is gone before he is gone.'When Samantha Morrow's husband leaves her and her eleven-year-old son she is faced with the terrifying prospect of having to recreate her whole life.After a few faltering steps she starts to put the pieces into place. She opens her house to a series of lodgers who each in their eccentric way help her to see herself.She fends off her mother, whose idea of getting over a failed marriage is to get a pedicure and get out there dating.And she makes a friend, King, an MIT graduate turned handyman, who shows her that she has the ability to make her own future and her own happiness.