Drives Like a Dream : A Novel EPUB
by Porter Shreve
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';A hilarious family tale' about a modern-day mother's lifestyle crisisand her outlandish attempts to get her family back (Woman's Day).
Lydia Modine is sixty-one and about to come undone. Her three grown-up children have flown the coop. She hasn't seen them together in more than a year, and now her ex-husband is about to marry a woman half his age. And the insults keep coming: Lydia is stuck on a book she's writing about Detroit's car industry, which uncannily parallels her own lifeout with the old model, in with the new. She's poured her soul into her family, only to be abandoned in the City of Dream Machines. But then a twist of fate introduces her to Norm, an eco-car fanatic out to remake her and the world.
A ';smart and funny' novel that's sure to appeal to anyone who has longed for an alternate life, Drives Like a Dream confirms that sometimes when you set out for a spin, the twists and turns can be perfectly rewardingand right (Chicago Tribune).
';A beautiful novel.' The Washington Post
Lydia Modine is sixty-one and about to come undone. Her three grown-up children have flown the coop. She hasn't seen them together in more than a year, and now her ex-husband is about to marry a woman half his age. And the insults keep coming: Lydia is stuck on a book she's writing about Detroit's car industry, which uncannily parallels her own lifeout with the old model, in with the new. She's poured her soul into her family, only to be abandoned in the City of Dream Machines. But then a twist of fate introduces her to Norm, an eco-car fanatic out to remake her and the world.
A ';smart and funny' novel that's sure to appeal to anyone who has longed for an alternate life, Drives Like a Dream confirms that sometimes when you set out for a spin, the twists and turns can be perfectly rewardingand right (Chicago Tribune).
';A beautiful novel.' The Washington Post
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- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication Date:09/08/2006
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- ISBN:9780547754314
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication Date:09/08/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780547754314
