- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: Hutchinson (Nov 22 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0091800285
- ISBN-13: 978-0091800284
- Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 16.2 x 4.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 3.2 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,639,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for Douglas Kennedy’s A Special Relationship:
“As it gathered pace . . . I found my heart beating faster. I cannot remember a more compulsive book.”
–Daily Telegraph
“Kennedy knows how to keep the pages turning.”
–The Times
From the Trade Paperback edition.
“As it gathered pace . . . I found my heart beating faster. I cannot remember a more compulsive book.”
–Daily Telegraph
“Kennedy knows how to keep the pages turning.”
–The Times
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Book Description
Douglas Kennedy’s riveting new novel bears his trademark genius for writing serious popular fiction.
Hannah Buchan leads an orderly life in a small town in Maine — a schoolteacher, married to a doctor, with two grown up children. However, her past conceals a dark secret. Thirty years ago she had a brief, dangerous fling with Tobias Judson, a high profile student activist, which she had reconciled to that internal, off-limits attic room marked “Ancient History.” But when Tobias suddenly pops up out of nowhere with a book about his radical years, her life goes into free-fall. And before she knows it, Hannah discovers that a long-ago transgression is never really forgotten.
Set amid two wildly contrasting periods of recent American life — the militant 60s and 70s, and the new-found conservatism of today — State of the Union is a remarkable portrait of one woman’s attempts to find her own way in the shifting political currents of her time. But it is also an intriguing portrait of the complexities of a long marriage, the ongoing guilt of parenthood, the perpetual tension between familial responsibility and personal freedom, and the divisive debate between liberal and conservative values that so engulfs the United States today.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Hannah Buchan leads an orderly life in a small town in Maine — a schoolteacher, married to a doctor, with two grown up children. However, her past conceals a dark secret. Thirty years ago she had a brief, dangerous fling with Tobias Judson, a high profile student activist, which she had reconciled to that internal, off-limits attic room marked “Ancient History.” But when Tobias suddenly pops up out of nowhere with a book about his radical years, her life goes into free-fall. And before she knows it, Hannah discovers that a long-ago transgression is never really forgotten.
Set amid two wildly contrasting periods of recent American life — the militant 60s and 70s, and the new-found conservatism of today — State of the Union is a remarkable portrait of one woman’s attempts to find her own way in the shifting political currents of her time. But it is also an intriguing portrait of the complexities of a long marriage, the ongoing guilt of parenthood, the perpetual tension between familial responsibility and personal freedom, and the divisive debate between liberal and conservative values that so engulfs the United States today.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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3.9 out of 5 stars (14 customer reviews)
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A great read!, Jun 15 2006
By M. Alison "Far away reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: State of the Union (Hardcover)
I just finished reading the French version and ordered the English version for Father's Day for my dad. I loved this book and wish it was not finished! I highly recommend it. Interestingly the translation of the title into French is : The Secret Charms of Married Life....having nothing to do with the English title.
15 of 18 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
"USA today", Feb 3 2006
By Jacinthe Grandmont - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: State of the Union (Paperback)
Yes, for me, that book represents your country. It's a picture of it. For me, living from the outside, I see clearly the opposite sides, the paradoxal way of living in USA. It's a wonderful book telling the truth about convictions, souls and ways of living. It's a picture of New England. And it's a North book. I like it. By creating those personnalities, it's also drawing the political paradox of your country.It's very, very sad reading the French version( I'm French Canadian). A lot, a lot of mistakes. For such a good book, it's something bad because it gives a shadow.
But for you, having the chance to read the English book, dont hesitate. It's a very, very good picture of "United" States of America.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
good, but not his best., May 5 2010
By globalcook - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: State of the Union (Paperback)
Engaging story. Douglas Kennedy does a great job at weaving an interesting plot with varied characters, but his negative stereotyping of evangelical Christians got a bit old. Kennedy's radical leftists seemed human, with good and bad traits, but the Christians were all depicted as a bunch of losers, with no redeeming qualities. Life's not like that; there's always good and bad in people.
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