Love in the Present Tense
Leonard is an eerily wise five-year-boy with asthma and vision problems, who captivates everyone he meets. Pearl is Leonard's devoted teenage mother, desperately trying to hide a violent secret from her past. Mitch is Leonard's 25-year-old neighbour, busy running his own company and entertaining...
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Leonard is an eerily wise five-year-boy with asthma and vision problems, who captivates everyone he meets.
Pearl is Leonard's devoted teenage mother, desperately trying to hide a violent secret from her past.
Mitch is Leonard's 25-year-old neighbour, busy running his own company and entertaining the Mayor's wife.
Then one day, Pearl drops Leonard off with Mitch and never returns.
How do you go on loving with someone who isn't there? As truth and fiction, memory and dreams collide. Mitch finds himself learning from a surprising source the true, magical definition of love
źródło opisu: Okładka
źródło okładki: http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/love-in-the-...»
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Format: papier
Publish date: 2007 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Pages no: 302
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Drama,
Family,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
This book surprised me. Ignore the cover. The cover makes it look like one of those awful books on neglected/abused children, that seem so popular with certain people. This is not one of those books. It's an easy yet quite touching read. Reasonably well written and flits between time and narrator...
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