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First edition. |
| Description |
250 pages ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
Fleeing her cold and unfaithful husband, who has just launched his first campaign for political office, Lydia, accompanied by her six-year-old daughter, races from Alaska to Maine and hides in a dingy motel as her husband's pursuit escalates from threatening to criminal. |
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Lydia Millet's chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who's just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy motel look like typical tourists-- and the less Ned resembles a typical candidate. As his pursuit of Anna and their child moves from threatening to criminal, Ned begins to alter his wife's world in ways she never could have imagined. A double-edged and satisfying story with a strong female protagonist, a thrilling plot, and a creeping sense of the apocalyptic, Sweet Lamb of Heaven builds to a shattering ending with profound implications for its characters-- and for all of us. |
| Subject |
Marital conflict -- Fiction.
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Marital conflict. (OCoLC)fst01010071
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
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Suspense fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726755
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| ISBN |
9780393285543 (hardcover) : $25.95 |
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0393285545 (hardcover) |
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