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DAYBREAK (A Novel)
Plain, Belva
1994 17070 investigates the familiar territory of complex family relationships. This time she examines a situation right out of recent headlines: the switching of babies at birth. Margaret and Arthur Crawfield have just buried their son Peter, dead of a genetic disorder, and must come to grips with the fact that DNA testing proved conclusively that he could not have been their biological child. The parents of the dead boy, Bud and Laura Rice, are quickly traced, and it is shown that their robust son Tom is indeed the Crawfield's. But--and the irony is heavily emphasized--Tom and his father are both racists, admirers of the Klan and the Nazi party. The Crawfields are Jewish. The novel is at its best, and most moving, as the two families meet and try to sort out the events that have devastated them all. Bud evades the issue by total denial. Depressed and antagonistic, Tom emerges as one of the few fully realized characters in this schematic rendering. Plain knows how to wring the emotions from her examinations of family dynamics, and her audience will undoubtedly find this latest effort appealing. Published at Twenty Three Dollars. Delacorte Press 0-385-31104-4 / 9780385311045
Hardcover As New New York
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Secrecy
Plain, Belva
02867707 Hard Cover. Brand New Book Jacket. 6 x 9". ISBN:0385316860. Published at $24.95, this brand new copy by Belva Plain is a passionate, riveting novel about an extraordinary family bound and torn by SEC RECY! It cuts to the heart of a fmily nearly destroyed by secrecy. But it it ultimately a story of redemption, the kind that grows when one person dares to tell the truth. Toronto, ON, Canada: Dell Distributing, 1997
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Whispers (A Novel )
Plain, Belva
1993 55135 Robert and Lynn Ferguson are a picture-perfect couple with two beautiful daughters and a lovely home in an exclusive Connecticut community. Robert is on the fast track of a major corporation. Lynn is devoted to her family and good works. But in the Ferguson's closed doors hide a painful secret Lynn must keep from the world-and her children-at any cost... Not even the Fergusons's best friends, Josie and Bruce Lehman, know of Lynn's shame. Social worker Josie sees her bruises distrusts the too-ambitious, too perfect Robert, and suspects the real cause of the children's increasingly disturbed behavior. But not even Josie can pierce Lynn's wall of silence, a wall that will not crumble until Lynn is forced to face herself-and the truth-at last. Belva Plain's searing novel of a family's heartbreak, a woman's courage, and a subject too often talked about only in whispers. Publishers Weekly Plain's accomplished portrayal of a seemingly perfect Connecticut homemaker and her abusive husband was a PW bestseller. (Apr.) BookList Plain's latest is impeccably done and ought to please her large readership. It isn't literature, to be sure, but it's the kind of book that reminds us that, since its inception, the novel has been used for instruction and consolation. Richardson's epistolary novels were originally meant to teach good letter-writing style. The biggest nineteenth-century U.S. best-sellers were as much manuals of moral conduct and Christian reassurance as good stories. Indeed, many weren't very good stories, and neither is "Whispers". It's the chronicle of the domestic crises of an upper-middle-class woman married to an ambitious, image-obsessed executive who flies into violent rages when he feels thwarted. Yes, she's the long-suffering spouse of a wife beater--a setup right out of the so-called four-hankie movies of the 1930s through 1950s that used to star actresses named Joan, Jane, Jean, and June. Plain's purposes in rehearsing this scenario again are to illustrate what an abusive relationship is, to inculcate that it can afflict women in even the best strata of society, to sympathetically model getting out of such a situation, and to stress how difficult getting out can be even--perhaps especially--for a good, smart, talented woman. She succeeds admirably and affectingly, and her heroine's trials and eventual triumphs will instruct and console a huge audience. Kirkus Reviews The plight of the battered wife is the subject of Plain's latest (Treasures, 1992; Harvest, 1990, etc.)-in which an Iowa- bred suburban Connecticut housewife and mother suffers the sporadic rages of a successful career husband. "To live with Robert was to dwell in sunlight for months and months; then suddenly a flashing storm would turn everything into darkness...." Although Robert at first blamed Lynn for the drowning death of their toddler, he had been cautioned in his judgment by wiser heads, and now, in 1988, Robert and Lynn live-to the public at least-in harmony in a comfortable house filled with tasteful things: "Either the best or nothing" is Robert's dictum. Handsome, certainly involved with his family, hard-working, and on his way up, Robert, who also enjoys giving thoughtful gifts, is surely still the man Lynn fell in love with. But a dinner jacket not packed for an important business trip, a crazy suspicion of interest in another man, too sharp an argument, then-the violence, followed by Robert's cringing apology. Some friends and acquaintances "know"-kind Bruce and his dying wife, Josie; lawyer Tom Lawrence, who seems to take an unusually strong interest in Lynn; and the family of teenaged Harris, boyfriend of Lynn and Robert's daughter Emily. Meanwhile, the children, Emily and Annie, seek their own refuges and rebellions, but it is not until after the birth of baby Bobby-and some sleuthing that reveals the truth about Robert's first marriage-that Lynn accepts her loss-and is nearly murdered. This time out, Plain covers the essentials in her psychological profiles of batterer and batteree-in a stra Dell Publishing Co. 0-385-29928-1 / 9780385299282
Hardcover Very Good Condition New York, N.Y.
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WHISPERS (FIction)
Plain, Belva
1993 19907 From the Publisher In Whispers, her stunning new novel, Belva Plain shows she has no equal as a chronicler of twentieth-century American life. Here she creates one of the most realistic portraits of a marriage in recent fiction, a tale of the nineties told with shocking authenticity. In it we are privy to the secret life of one outwardly perfect family, we hear the whispers about what goes on behind their closed doors, and we experience the triumph that comes when one person dares to tell the truth. It can happen in the best of families - even the Fergusons. When Lynn and Robert first meet, she is a bright, open-faced twenty-year-old; he is handsome, a little older, a charming young executive who is already rising fast in one of America's top corporations. From the start, they are deeply in love, thrilled by the discovery of their mutual desire. It is only on their honeymoon that the gold begins to tarnish when Robert's anger erupts into a physical attack, one Lynn blames on herself, for, after all, Robert is the love of her life. With a lovely home in an exclusive Connecticut community, the Fergusons are living the ultimate American Dream - a picture-perfect marriage, two beautiful children, parties at the country club, and wonderful friends. Yet Lynn, a devoted mother and model corporate wife, has never been able to piece together all the parts of her husband's past - his failed first marriage, and the son he never discusses. Somewhere in those mysterious years may be the key to understanding the violence that is tearing her family apart. But not even to their closest friends can Lynn bear to reveal what is really going on in the Ferguson household, the lies she has been telling, the pain she sees in her children's eyes, and the family secrets that are about to explode in a shattering and unforgettable climax. Written with extraordinary sensitivity and intelligence, whispers brings Belva Plain to a new level as an author. Holding a mirror up to modern life, she has written an i From The Critics Publishers Weekly Plain's accomplished portrayal of a seemingly perfect Connecticut homemaker and her abusive husband was a PW bestseller. (Apr.) BookList Plain's latest is impeccably done and ought to please her large readership. It isn't literature, to be sure, but it's the kind of book that reminds us that, since its inception, the novel has been used for instruction and consolation. Richardson's epistolary novels were originally meant to teach good letter-writing style. The biggest nineteenth-century U.S. best-sellers were as much manuals of moral conduct and Christian reassurance as good stories. Indeed, many weren't very good stories, and neither is "Whispers". It's the chronicle of the domestic crises of an upper-middle-class woman married to an ambitious, image-obsessed executive who flies into violent rages when he feels thwarted. Yes, she's the long-suffering spouse of a wife beater--a setup right out of the so-called four-hankie movies of the 1930s through 1950s that used to star actresses named Joan, Jane, Jean, and June. Plain's purposes in rehearsing this scenario again are to illustrate what an abusive relationship is, to inculcate that it can afflict women in even the best strata of society, to sympathetically model getting out of such a situation, and to stress how difficult getting out can be even--perhaps especially--for a good, smart, talented woman. She succeeds admirably and affectingly, and her heroine's trials and eventual triumphs will instruct and console a huge audience. Kirkus Reviews The plight of the battered wife is the subject of Plain's latest (Treasures, 1992; Harvest, 1990, etc.)-in which an Iowa- bred suburban Connecticut housewife and mother suffers the sporadic rages of a successful career husband. "To live with Robert was to dwell in sunlight for months and months; then suddenly a flashing storm would turn everything into darkness...." Although Robert at first blamed Lynn for the drowning death of their toddler, he had been cautioned in his judgment by wiser heads, and now, in 1988, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group 0-385-29928-1 / 9780385299282
Hardcover As New New York, N.Y.
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