Close to Home: A Novel
แแแ. 2014 ยท Open Road Media
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In the tradition of Anne Rivers Siddons and Pat Conroy comes this sensual, beautifully written novel of the South, about a world on the verge of change and the secrets it fears will be revealed
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When you enter the town of Fawley, you take a step back to a simpler time, back to when neighbors shared potluck dinners, church socials were the only parties decent people attended, and people knew who they were and what they valuedโand didnโt tolerate outsiders who tried to change things.
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It is into this closed but nonetheless appealing community that Danny Crane brings his new wife, Lydia.ย They met at Myrtle Beach, where they spent a week in the rush and confusion of falling in love. The relationship that ensued startled them both, and the fact that they married six months later was equally disorienting.ย It was an act of passionate conviction and blind faith.
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From the outset, Lydia finds Fawley to be different from the exclusive and privileged environment in which she was raised, secure in both โnameโ and โpositionโ in her familyโs stately home in the Georgetown section of Washington, DC. But gradually Lydia comes to realize that few things in Fawley are as they seem, for behind the serenity and the clean-scrubbed faรงades, there exists a tradition of suspicion and anger, of hostility toward outsiders and fear of change of any kind.
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Even more disturbing is her realization that Danny, too, is not what he had seemedโthat beneath the easy charm lies a darkness borne of distrust and deception, and of secrets too closely kept.ย In a struggle to hold on to the marriage she continues to believe in, Lydia is forced to confront the forces that have shaped her husbandโthe town of Fawley itself, and Dannyโs family, most especially his cousin Kyle, whose personal magnetism even Lydia has to acknowledge, but whose hold on those around him becomes more and more destructive.ย Filled with the heat generated by passions too long suppressed and secrets too long kept buried, Close to Home is both a sensual and a literary gem.
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When you enter the town of Fawley, you take a step back to a simpler time, back to when neighbors shared potluck dinners, church socials were the only parties decent people attended, and people knew who they were and what they valuedโand didnโt tolerate outsiders who tried to change things.
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It is into this closed but nonetheless appealing community that Danny Crane brings his new wife, Lydia.ย They met at Myrtle Beach, where they spent a week in the rush and confusion of falling in love. The relationship that ensued startled them both, and the fact that they married six months later was equally disorienting.ย It was an act of passionate conviction and blind faith.
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From the outset, Lydia finds Fawley to be different from the exclusive and privileged environment in which she was raised, secure in both โnameโ and โpositionโ in her familyโs stately home in the Georgetown section of Washington, DC. But gradually Lydia comes to realize that few things in Fawley are as they seem, for behind the serenity and the clean-scrubbed faรงades, there exists a tradition of suspicion and anger, of hostility toward outsiders and fear of change of any kind.
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Even more disturbing is her realization that Danny, too, is not what he had seemedโthat beneath the easy charm lies a darkness borne of distrust and deception, and of secrets too closely kept.ย In a struggle to hold on to the marriage she continues to believe in, Lydia is forced to confront the forces that have shaped her husbandโthe town of Fawley itself, and Dannyโs family, most especially his cousin Kyle, whose personal magnetism even Lydia has to acknowledge, but whose hold on those around him becomes more and more destructive.ย Filled with the heat generated by passions too long suppressed and secrets too long kept buried, Close to Home is both a sensual and a literary gem.
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Barbara Hall is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and television producer. She is the creator and producer of the Emmy-nominated television seriesย Joan of Arcadia. Her TV writing and producing credits includeย Northern Exposure,ย Chicago Hope, andย Judging Amy.ย
She is the author of four young adult novels, includingย Skeeball and the Secret of the Universeย (1987, Orchard Press),ย Dixie Stormsย (1990, HBJ),ย Foolโs Hillย (1992, Bantam), and the mysteryย House Across the Coveย (1995, Bantam). Her previous novels includeย A Better Placeย (1992),ย Close to Homeย (1997), andย A Summons yo New Orleans, all published by Simon & Schuster.
Barbara Hall lives in Pacific Palisades, California, with her daughter Faith.
She is the author of four young adult novels, includingย Skeeball and the Secret of the Universeย (1987, Orchard Press),ย Dixie Stormsย (1990, HBJ),ย Foolโs Hillย (1992, Bantam), and the mysteryย House Across the Coveย (1995, Bantam). Her previous novels includeย A Better Placeย (1992),ย Close to Homeย (1997), andย A Summons yo New Orleans, all published by Simon & Schuster.
Barbara Hall lives in Pacific Palisades, California, with her daughter Faith.
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