Good to a fault
Endicott, Marina , 1958-
Good to a fault / Marina Endicott - 1st Harper Perennial edition - New York : HarperCollins Publishers , 2011, c2008. - 367 p. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: Canada : Freehand Books, 2008. Short listed for the Commonwealth Writers' prize.
Insurance claims adjuster Clara Purdy is 43, divorced, and settled into a comfortable, if lonely, routine. That ends dramatically one day when she accidentally runs her car into a family of six. The Gages-Lorraine and Clayton, his elderly mother, and three young children-are homeless and on the road to find work. Lorraine is hospitalized after the post-accident exam finds that she has cancer, and Clara impulsively decides to offer her home to the rest of them. When Clayton leaves for parts unknown, Clara becomes the family's bulwark and guardian of the three children, including baby Pearce. As the chaos and joy swirl together, Clara finds an unexpected support network in neighbors, relatives, and her pastor. Verdict Winner of a Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2009, this second novel by Canadian Endicott, a former actor/director, is a brilliantly balanced and engrossing work about illness, charity, and the very tenuous nature of goodness.
9780061825903
2010514066
015432605 Uk
Cancer patients----Fiction
Guilt----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PR9199.4.E53 / G66 2010
FIC END
Good to a fault / Marina Endicott - 1st Harper Perennial edition - New York : HarperCollins Publishers , 2011, c2008. - 367 p. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: Canada : Freehand Books, 2008. Short listed for the Commonwealth Writers' prize.
Insurance claims adjuster Clara Purdy is 43, divorced, and settled into a comfortable, if lonely, routine. That ends dramatically one day when she accidentally runs her car into a family of six. The Gages-Lorraine and Clayton, his elderly mother, and three young children-are homeless and on the road to find work. Lorraine is hospitalized after the post-accident exam finds that she has cancer, and Clara impulsively decides to offer her home to the rest of them. When Clayton leaves for parts unknown, Clara becomes the family's bulwark and guardian of the three children, including baby Pearce. As the chaos and joy swirl together, Clara finds an unexpected support network in neighbors, relatives, and her pastor. Verdict Winner of a Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2009, this second novel by Canadian Endicott, a former actor/director, is a brilliantly balanced and engrossing work about illness, charity, and the very tenuous nature of goodness.
9780061825903
2010514066
015432605 Uk
Cancer patients----Fiction
Guilt----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PR9199.4.E53 / G66 2010
FIC END
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