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Before Everything

A Novel

By: Victoria Redel

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A group of lifetime friends gather together to confront life, love, and now mortality “Everything you want a novel about life, death, and friendship to be—smart, moving, sweeping, poetic, stinging, just beautiful. I loved these women (and their men) and this elegy to their long-reaching bonds.” —Dani Shapiro, author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage Before Everything is a celebration of friendship and love between a group of women who have known each another since they were girls. They’ve faced everything together, from youthful sprees and scrapes to mid-life turning points. Now, as Anna, the group’s trailblazer and brightest spark, enters hospice, they gather to do what they’ve always done—talk and laugh and help each other make choices and plans, this time in Anna’s rural Massachusetts home. Helen, Anna’s best friend and a celebrated painter, is about to remarry. The others face their own challenges—Caroline with her sister’s mental health crisis; Molly with a teenage daughter’s rebellion; Ming with her law practice—dilemmas with kids and work and love. Before Everything is as funny as it is bittersweet, as the friends revel in the hilarious mistakes they’ve seen one another through, the secrets kept, and adventures shared. But now all sense of time has shifted, and the pattern of their lives together takes on new meaning. The novel offers a brilliant, emotionally charged portrait, deftly conveying the sweep of time over everyday lives, and showing how even in difficult endings, gifts can unfold. Above all it is an ode to friendship, and to how one person shapes the journeys of those around her.

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0735222584

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Loverboy

A Novel

By: Victoria Redel

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Loverboy

A Novel

By: Victoria Redel

A mother's obsession with her only child, a son named Paul conceived in a loveless one-night stand, puts his life in danger. A first novel. Reprint.

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Mariner Books

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015600724X

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Before Everything

A Novel

By: Victoria Redel

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0735222592

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Already the World

Poems

By: Victoria Redel

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Already the World

Poems

By: Victoria Redel

The winner of the 1994 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, this manuscript was selected through an open competition of Ohio poets who have not yet published a book. The poems confront significant personal experiences of the journey through a language that is common, yet energised.

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Kent State University Press

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0873385314

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9780873385312

The Border of Truth: A Novel (Large Print 16pt)

By: Victoria Redel

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The Border of Truth: A Novel (Large Print 16pt)

By: Victoria Redel

what Kirkus called a powerful look into the instinct to both keep and reveal family secrets, the acclaimed author of Loverboy tells the stories of Sara Leader and her father, Richard. As he flees the Holocaust aboard the Quanza, we hear her ta...

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458759652

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9781458759658

Already the World

Poems

By: Victoria Redel

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The Border of Truth

A Novel

By: Victoria Redel

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The Border of Truth

A Novel

By: Victoria Redel

At 41, single professor Sara Leader decides to create a family by adopting a child. After the adoption agency asks for details about her background, Sara reluctantly begins to probe her father's secret history — in particular, his flight as a 17–year–old Holocaust refugee aboard a ship denied entry into America. The more she learns about her father's past, the more Sara feels the need to question him about what happened — and the more she realizes how her father's secrets have shaped her own life. Alternating between a teenage boy's energetic letters to Eleanor Roosevelt and a daughter's sifting through the fragments of her father's traumatic wartime choices, Victoria Redel brilliantly imbues her characters with not only bravery and strength but with the humor to survive the pain of the past and the uncertainty of what lies ahead.

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Catapult

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1582439206

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By: Victoria Redel

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Dear and Honoured Lady

The Correspondence Between Queen Victoria and Alfred Tennyson

By: Victoria (Queen of Great Britain)

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Dear and Honoured Lady

The Correspondence Between Queen Victoria and Alfred Tennyson

By: Victoria (Queen of Great Britain)

The story (told mostly with the aid of hitherto unpublished material located in the Royal archives at Windsor and the Tennyson Research Centre at Lincoln) of the remarkable friendship that developed between Queen Victoria and her Poet Laureate, Alfred Tennyson.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838679226

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The Border of Truth: A Novel (Large Print 16pt)

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Already the World

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The Border of Truth

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