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Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
EAN
9780982053942
ISBN
9780982053942

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Tin House Books, LLC
ISBN-10
0982053940
ISBN-13
9780982053942
eBay Product ID (ePID)
77129664

Product Key Features

Book Title
Hot Springs
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Literary
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Fiction
Author
Geoffrey Becker
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
7.2 in
Item Width
5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-038276
Reviews
"In his incisive latest, Becker (2008 Flannery O'Conner Prizewinner for Black Elvis) recounts the misadventures of Bernice Click, a volatile young woman determined to raise the biological daughter she gave up for adoption. With the help of her boyfriend, Bernice kidnaps five-year-old Emily from her adoptive parents in Colorado and ends up in Baltimore, where she attempts to make a new life for herself and the girl. Meanwhile, Tessa Harding, Emily's adoptive mother, tries to recover Emily without involving authorities. Struggling with the revelation of her husband's indifference to the child, not to mention his adultery and increasingly sadistic behavior, Tessa embarks on a riveting adventure. The novel relies on a far-fetched coincidence to launch Tessa's mission, but resulting scenes are sufficiently tense and thought provoking to justify the stretch, while Becker's portrayal of Tessa's faith is moving and psychologically complex. As desperation mounts on all sides, Becker piles on devastating events, creating a remarkably taut narrative and a rousing testament to humanity's capacity for resilience. Nobody gets off the hook, though they do find uneasy deliverance in unexpected places."-Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "In Hot Springs, his rollicking new novel, Geoffrey Becker has assembled a delicate collage of damaged souls...Becker gives them to us with such earnest and empathetic insight that he makes us root for even the most ungracious among them."-Rachel Rosenblit, ELLE "As the plot unfolds, readers are inexorably drawn into the narrative and are compelled to keep reading to learn the ultimate outcome...Becker demonstrates great skill in depicting distasteful characters whose unhappy experiences are so morbidly fascinating and so bloated with perplexing uncertainty as to provide their own uniquely tainted attraction." -Morton I. Teicher, ForeWord "You won't trust a person in this book but it's hard to look away. People may be feckless and unreliable in the big ways, but their longing for children drives them without relent.Hot Springsis a road trip layered with desire and mistake and the impossibility of keeping a secret from rising through the years." -Ron Carlson, author ofThe Signal, "Geoffrey Becker's fantasticHot Springsworks hard to conceal its own scope and ambition, but the book's coyness (not to mention its humor) only heightens the uncanny, moving power of the question at its core: When it comes down to it, how far will people go for love'...Throughout the novel, characters ignore their own better judgments, creating a thrilling psychological drama that unfolds alongside the external events and creates space for the unexpected on virtually ever page. Becker has a gift for surprises...Becker's technical expertise and natural storytelling gifts are difficult to deny, as is his admirably muted sense of the absurd...Of all the reasons to be excited aboutHot Springs, though, the book's strange and fresh treatment of love itself is the best...it's a taut meditation on letting go and a convincing reminder that love, for all the destruction it can cause, can usually rebuild just about anything."-Patrick Somerville,The New York Times Book Review "In his incisive latest, Becker (2008 Flannery O'Conner Prizewinner for Black Elvis) recounts the misadventures of Bernice Click, a volatile young woman determined to raise the biological daughter she gave up for adoption. With the help of her boyfriend, Bernice kidnaps five-year-old Emily from her adoptive parents in Colorado and ends up in Baltimore, where she attempts to make a new life for herself and the girl. Meanwhile, Tessa Harding, Emily's adoptive mother, tries to recover Emily without involving authorities. Struggling with the revelation of her husband's indifference to the child, not to mention his adultery and increasingly sadistic behavior, Tessa embarks on a riveting adventure. The novel relies on a far-fetched coincidence to launch Tessa's mission, but resulting scenes are sufficiently tense and thought provoking to justify the stretch, while Becker's portrayal of Tessa's faith is moving and psychologically complex. As desperation mounts on all sides, Becker piles on devastating events, creating a remarkably taut narrative and a rousing testament to humanity's capacity for resilience. Nobody gets off the hook, though they do find uneasy deliverance in unexpected places."-Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "In Hot Springs, his rollicking new novel, Geoffrey Becker has assembled a delicate collage of damaged souls...Becker gives them to us with such earnest and empathetic insight that he makes us root for even the most ungracious among them."-Rachel Rosenblit,ELLE "The dichotomy of Bernice and Landis is the sort of thing that makes for great fiction..."-Time Out Chicago "Geoffrey Becker gets you in fast and deep to the humor and the danger of the situation." -latimes.com "Becker is a phenomenal storyteller; only a writer of his caliber could have pulled this off so well."-Sacramento Book Review "As the plot unfolds, readers are inexorably drawn into the narrative and are compelled to keep reading to learn the ultimate outcome...Becker demonstrates great skill in depicting distasteful characters whose unhappy experiences are so morbidly fascinating and so bloated with perplexing uncertainty as to provide their own uniquely tainted attraction." -Morton I. Teicher, ForeWord "You won't trust a person in this book but it's hard to look away. People may be feckless and unreliable in the big ways, but their longing for children drives them without relent.Hot Springsis a road trip layered with desire and mistake and the impossibility of keeping a secret from rising through the years." -Ron Carlson, author ofThe Signal "Like the first dip into the searing mineral soup for which the book is named, the first pages ofHot Springsshock and lure...Ultimately,Hot Springsis a beautifully crafted novel with a tightly wo, "You won't trust a person in this book but it's hard to look away. People may be feckless and unreliable in the big ways, but their longing for children drives them without relent.Hot Springsis a road trip layered with desire and mistake and the impossibility of keeping a secret from rising through the years." -Ron Carlson, author ofThe Signal
Dewey Edition
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Synopsis
Compelling and darkly comic, Hot Springs is the road-trip love story about a young woman who gave up her child for adoption and her quest, five years later, to steal the child back. Vibrant, sexy, and quite possibly crazy, Bernice is determined to reclaim the child she gave up for adoption five years ago. She convinces her boyfriend, Landis, to help carry out her plan, but once the abduction is accomplished, Bernice--whose own mother was given to manic episodes and strange behavior--is plagued with doubts. Will Landis stay with her, given her volatile personality and his own drifter past? Will she and Landis both end up in jail for this crime? And, perhaps most importantly, will she fail at being a mother? Dovetailed with this is the story of the conservative Christian adoptive parents, Tessa and David, and the effect the kidnapping has on their troubled marriage. As Bernice and Landis journey across America, from Colorado Springs to Tucson to Baltimore, Bernice must confront her past and the secrets she has kept., Compelling and darkly comic, Hot Springs is the road-trip love story about a young woman who gave up her child for adoption and her quest, five years later, to steal the child back., Vibrant, sexy, and quite possibly crazy, Bernice is determined to reclaim the child she gave up for adoption five years ago. She convinces her boyfriend, Landis, to help carry out her plan, but once the abduction is accomplished, Bernice--whose own mother was given to manic episodes and strange behavior--is plagued with doubts. Will Landis stay with her, given her volatile personality and his own drifter past? Will she and Landis both end up in jail for this crime? And, perhaps most importantly, will she fail at being a mother? Dovetailed with this is the story of the conservative Christian adoptive parents, Tessa and David, and the effect the kidnapping has on their troubled marriage. As Bernice and Landis journey across America, from Colorado Springs to Tucson to Baltimore, Bernice must confront her past and the secrets she has kept.
LC Classification Number
PS3552.E2553H68 2010

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