Three Stages of Amazement
A Marriage, Fiction, Womens Fiction book. Forgetting means remembering at an inconvenient time. Carol Edgarian, Three...
A sweeping, richly compassionate novel about marriage, ambition, and the reclaiming of love—by the bestselling novelist and cofounder of Narrative magazine.Many love stories end in marriage; rare is the love story that begins with one—already promised, already worn. Set in San Francisco during the first year of Obama’s presidency, Three Stages of Amazement deftly charts the struggles and triumphs of Lena Rusch and her husband Charlie Pepper, still believe they can have it all--sex, love, marriage, children, career, brilliance. But life delivers surprises and tests--a stillborn child, an economic crash, a ruthless business rival and the attentions of an old lover. Touched by tragedy and by ordinary hopes unmet, Lena and Charlie must face, for the first time in their lives, real limitation.Fifteen years after her stunning debut, Rise the Euphrates, Carol Edgarian has created a panoramic and deeply moving story about business and family and the demands of love in our time. She takes readers on a spellbinding journey inside America today, with an unforgettable cast of characters including Cal Rusch, Lena’s uncle, a Silicon Valley titan, and Ivy, his socialite wife, who engender complication in the lives of all the people they touch: their grown children,...
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- Pages: 304 pages
- ISBN: 9781439198308 / 0
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Forgetting means remembering at an inconvenient time. Carol Edgarian, Three Stages of Amazement //
This book was amazing--all the way through.Dr. Charlie Pepper and his wife Lena Rusch are struggling to keep their marriage together. They have an ailing infant child, Willa, a precocious son, Theo, and a robotic surgery device, Nimbus, that Charlie is trying to develop in the recessed economy. Cal Rusch, Lena's estranged uncle, offers... I liked this book much more than I thought I would at the outset (I would have given this 3.5 stars). The author paints a ravishing look at San Francisco Bay Area through the election and first governing years of President Obama. The main characters, though adults, are all painfully trying to do adult things while they themselves are... Disappointing! The writing is overwrought, the characters are the kind of stereotypes you'd find in a Jacqueline Susann novel, and the story is a soap opera - without any of the fun of a good soap!
