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Book Title
If You Left
Author
Ashley Prentice Norton
Publisher
Mariner Books
ISBN
9780544263680

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0544263685
ISBN-13
9780544263680
eBay Product ID (ePID)
216021980

Product Key Features

Book Title
If You Left
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, Contemporary Women, Romance / General
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Drama, Fiction
Author
Ashley Prentice Norton
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-010942
Reviews
"Darkly funny... Compulsively readable"-People "A novel to make you laugh, cringe, and appreciate your mother."-O, the Oprah Magazine "Debut author Norton, the great-great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, writes fearlessly, and the results are compelling. Reading this novel is like watching a train speed toward you, and you're paralyzed on the tracks."-Booklist "Despite the sweet title, this debut novel by Ashley Prentice Norton is a dark tale of maternal sadism, twisted sex, and self-destruction. Norton is a fearless writer."-James Frey, author of Bright Shiny Morning "I am not a reader easily shocked, and I was shocked by the brave twists and daring turns of Ashley Norton's compulsively readable The Chocolate Money. This story of a girl coming of age in Chicago, heir to a chocolate fortune and all the spoils and hungers that fortune sparks, is fearless and utterly unputdownable."-Jennifer Gilmore, author of Something Red and Golden Country "Not since Mommy Dearest has there been a transcription of a complex mother-daughter relationship as powerful. I rooted with all my heart for this girl. Ashley Prentice Norton's writing is so gripping, vivid, and moving - so realistically drawn - it leaves even the most well-adjusted reader with the chilling knowledge of what it's like to be raised by wolves. The Chocolate Money is devastating and unforgettable."-Isabel Gillies, author of Happens Every Day and A Year and Six Seconds "The Chocolate Money is the perfect page-turner, offering a window into the life of the richer-than-rich, complete with scandalous sex, wild parties, a snobby prep school, and a tyrannical train-wreck of a mother. But it's also something more-it's a perceptive portrait of a young woman growing past the world that shaped her. Norton writes with empathy and wisdom about mothers and daughters, and the pain of loving a parent you must escape."-Jill A. Davis, author of Ask Again Later "This is the darkest comedy I've ever read, overflowing with unflinching observations of the elite that are both laugh-out-loud and heart-wrenchingly poignant, all woven with the searing wit of a truly gifted new voice in fiction."-Jill Kargman, author of Wolves in Chic Clothing, " A woman suffering from bipolar disorder reaches a crossroads in her marriage and her life in this irresistible, tightly plotted novel. Althea Willow seems to have everything. Her husband, Oliver, owns a highly successful sunglasses company, and Althea is known for her controversial photography. If only she could relate more to their adopted 10-year-old daughter, Clem, she thinks she might just get this family thing right. Unfortunately, her affliction is in the driver's seat, and she's a slave to her symptoms, and a host of insecurities. Things come to a head when, after a decision to redecorate their East Hampton vacation home, Oliver brings in his beautiful French colleague, Claire Bissot to help. Althea is mortified, sensing they're more than just coworkers, and Oliver's past affairs only fuel the fire. Things really heat up when Althea hires Maze, a young painter who brings out a desire in her that she thought she'd lost. Norton ( The Chocolate Money ) writes Althea with a sure hand, unsentimental in her portrayal of a woman who is ruled by her illness and her codependent relationship with Oliver, yet desperately yearns for more. The lean narrative is unflinching, which only makes Althea's story, and her eventual self-enlightenment, even more poignant ." -- Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
A seductive novel about a privileged but damaged Manhattan wife whose main source of stability--her marriage--comes under threat, from forces both without and within., A seductive novel about a privileged but damaged Manhattan wife whose main source of stability -- her marriage -- comes under threat, from forces both without and within. For most of their marriage, Althea has fluctuated between extreme depressive and manic states -- what she calls "the Tombs" and "the Visions" -- and Oliver has been the steady hand that guided her to safety. This summer, Althea decides that she will be different from here on. She will be the loving, sexy wife Oliver wants, and the reliable, affectionate mother their nine year-old daughter Clem deserves. Her plan: to bring Clem to their Easthampton home once school is out -- with no "summer girl" to care for her this time -- and become "normal." But Oliver is distant and controlling, and his relationship with their interior decorator seems a bit too close; Clem has learned to be self-sufficient, and getting to know her now feels like very hard work for Althea. Into this scene enters the much younger, David Foster Wallace-reading house painter, who reaches something in Althea that has been long buried. Fearless, darkly funny, and compulsively readable, If You Left explores the complex dance that is the bipolar marriage, and the possibility that to move forward, we might have to destroy the very things we've worked hardest to build.
LC Classification Number
PS3614.O7823I36 2016

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