06679cam a2200469 4500 233531752 TxAuBib 20150605120000.0 ||||||s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780345507846 0345507843 B001ANUOHU Amazon cda1cc5a-40c9-41c7-9dd8-057791d62969 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 28554 154040 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Clayton, Meg Waite. The Wednesday Sisters [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2008. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1103kB. Format: OverDrive Adobe PDF eBook, Filesize: 1112kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Meg Waite Clayton's The Wednesday Daughters. Friendship, loyalty, and love lie at the heart of Meg Waite Clayton's beautifully written, poignant, and sweeping novel of five women who, over the course of four decades, come to redefine what it means to be family. For thirty-five years, Frankie, Linda, Kath, Brett, and Ally have met every Wednesday at the park near their homes in Palo Alto, California. Defined when they first meet by what their husbands do, the young homemakers and mothers are far removed from the Summer of Love that has enveloped most of the Bay Area in 1967. These "Wednesday Sisters" seem to have little in common: Frankie is a timid transplant from Chicago, brutally blunt Linda is a remarkable athlete, Kath is a Kentucky debutante, quiet Ally has a secret, and quirky, ultra-intelligent Brett wears little white gloves with her miniskirts. But they are bonded by a shared love of both literature--Fitzgerald, Eliot, Austen, du Maurier, Plath, and Dickens--and the Miss America Pageant, which they watch together every year. As the years roll on and their children grow, the quintet forms a writers circle to express their hopes and dreams through poems, stories, and, eventually, books. Along the way, they experience history in the making: Vietnam, the race for the moon, and a women's movement that challenges everything they have ever thought about themselves, while at the same time supporting one another through changes in their personal lives brought on by infidelity, longing, illness, failure, and success. Humorous and moving, The Wednesday Sisters is a literary feast for book lovers that earns a place among those popular works that honor the joyful, mysterious, unbreakable bonds between friends.. "Long before there were book clubs and play dates, there were the Wednesday Sisters--a group of women whose shared love of literature transports them above the pains and pitfalls of ordinary life. While these women may seem like typical suburban housewives, each character has an intriguing secret and a rich interior life that drew me into the story and held me there. This remarkable group of women demonstrates that no matter what period of history in which we live, no matter what race, creed or class we are, no matter what pains we endure, our one unifying salvation can be books. And this book reminded me of why I love to read.". HTML:- Lolly Winston, author of Good Grief and Happiness Sold Separately. HTML:"I read The Wednesday Sisters in one delicious gulp. With a smart, entrancing voice, Meg Waite Clayton sweeps us into the world of the tumultuous 1960's and beyond, and gives us the gift of five young women coming into their own as friends, mothers, wives and writers. The Wednesday Sisters takes their writing group as its core, and up until the last page, I found myself fervently rooting for each of them as if they were my friends too.". HTML:Lalita Tademy, author of Red River and Cane River. "Meg Waite Clayton gives us a group of spunky women--mostly young, married mothers--who make the unlikely decision in 1967 to form a writers' group. Their diverse journeys over the next years in their writing and in their lives add up to a compelling and deeply moving testament to the power of women's friendships. I simply couldn't put The Wednesday Sisters down until I'd turned the last page.". HTML:Ellen Baker, author of Keeping the House. HTML:"Richly intelligent, deeply felt and incandescently original, Clayton's book is a rhapsodic story of female friendship, set against wildly changing times and mores. Not only is the book heartbreaking, funny, and undeniably smart, but truly, this is the kind of book you don't just want to pass on to all your friends. You have to.". HTML:- Caroline Leavitt, author of Girls in Trouble and Coming Back to Me. "This generous and inventive book is a delight to read, an evocation of the power of friendship to sustain, encourage, and embolden us. Join the sisterhood!". HTML:Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. 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