by Ayelet Waldman · Doubleday · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780385608817
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«Love and Other Impossible Pursuits» is the contemporary fiction novel by Ayelet Waldman, published by Doubleday in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Emilia Greenleaf, a Harvard lawyer, lives on the Upper West Side with her husband Jack and her stepson William, a precocious five-year-old boy. Between mourning her newborn daughter and the difficult relationship with William, Emilia tries to rebuild her life in an unexpected family. The novel portrays with irony and emotion the challenges of family life.
The work was originally published on 2 January 2006; it was Ayelet Waldman's first novel published in the United Kingdom.
For readers of contemporary fiction and stories about blended families, grief and new relationships.
Ayelet Waldman is an Israeli-American novelist and essayist. She has written seven mystery novels in the series The Mommy-Track Mysteries and four other novels. She has also written autobiographical essays about motherhood. Waldman spent three years working as a federal public defender and her fiction draws on her experience as a lawyer.
