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Cargando... Distant Shores: A Novel (1996)por Kristin Hannah
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Fiction.
Literature.
Romance.
HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? ??Hannah examines whether love and commitment are enough to sustain a marriage when two people who have put their individual dreams on ice get a chance to defrost them . . . in fast-moving prose punctuated by snappy asides.???People Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a family. From a distance, their lives look picture perfect. But after the girls leave home, Jack and Elizabeth quietly drift apart. When Jack accepts a wonderful new job, Elizabeth puts her own needs aside to follow him across the country. Then tragedy turns Elizabeth??s world upside down. In the aftermath, she questions everything about her life??her choices, her marriage, even her long-forgotten dreams. In a daring move that shocks her husband, friends, and daughters, she lets go of the woman she has become??and reaches out for the w No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The Shores, fallen football star Jack, and his college sweetheart, Elizabeth "Birdy" are struggling to keep their marriage together after twenty-four years. Jack, who once was the golden boy, has struggled for the past many years to climb back to the top by way of sports anchoring at mediocre television stations across the country. Birdy, who gave up everything about herself she loved, including painting to support Jack and his dreams, has finally found a house, a town, a life where she wants to grow roots, in Echo Bay, Oregon. Of course, Jack has now been offered the job of a lifetime, in New York. Now Birdy must figure out who she is, what she is, and what's important to her: should she follow Jack, again, or refind herself? And Jack is left to wonder, should he give up this once-in-a-lifetime chance so that Birdy, who never can seem to make a decision, might finally do something that makes her happy?
Anyone who has ever had any lasting relationship can relate to both Birdy and Jack. Relationships can easily grow stale with age. The love may still be there, but gone is the excitement, long are the made and broken promises. In all relationships there are crossroads and Distant Shores does its best to touch on some of these. But, unfortunately, touch is all that happens.
I love the way Kristin Hannah writes, so polished, so effortless, while I liked this book and could relate to it, I didn't necessarily love Distant Shores; there just wasn't much there to sink my teeth into. For me, the most clever part of the book was the title. (