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Polly Dugan

    L'écriture de Polly Dugan capture un moment dans le temps et suit son déroulement ultérieur. Ses personnages, d'origine majoritairement catholique irlandaise, sont confrontés à leurs défauts, leur foi, leur moralité, leur mortalité et leurs circonstances. Bien que des animaux apparaissent souvent dans ses histoires, il ne s'agit pas d'histoires d'animaux. Sa prose explore avec perspicacité les fardeaux émotionnels et moraux de l'alcoolisme, de l'avortement et de l'infidélité, tissés sans couture à travers les générations. Dugan expose habilement les secrets de famille et examine les répercussions des choix émotionnels sur la vie de ses personnages.

    The sweetheart deal
    • The sweetheart deal

      • 320pages
      • 12 heures de lecture
      3,4(644)Évaluer

      The poignant story of what happens when a woman who thinks she's lost everything has the chance to love again. Leo has long joked that, in the event of his death, he wants his best friend Garrett, a lifelong bachelor, to marry his wife, Audrey. One drunken night, he goes so far as to make Garrett promise to do so. Then, twelve years later, Leo, a veteran firefighter, dies in a skiing accident. As Audrey navigates her new role as widow and single parent, Garrett quits his job in Boston and buys a one-way ticket out west. Before long, Audrey's feelings for Garrett become more than platonic, and Garrett finds himself falling for Audrey, her boys, and their life together in Portland. When Audrey finds out about the drunken pact from years ago, though, the harmless promise that brought Garrett into her world becomes the obstacle to his remaining in it.

      The sweetheart deal