| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 35 min.)) : digital. |
|
digital digital recording rda |
|
data file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Madeleine Maby. |
| Summary |
From the author of the acclaimed The Opposite of Me, a poignant, witty novel about marriage, forgiveness, and the choices that give shape-and limits-to our lives. What would you do if your husband suddenly wanted to rewrite all of the rules of your relationship? This is the question at the heart of Skipping a Beat, Pekkanen's thought-provoking second book. From the outside, Julia and Michael seem to have it all. Both products of difficult childhoods in rural West Virginia-where they were simply Julie and Mike-they become high school sweethearts and fall in love. Shortly after graduation, they flee their small town to start afresh. Now thirty-somethings, they are living a rarified life in their multi-million-dollar, Washington D.C. home. Julia is a highly sought-after party planner, while Michael has just sold his wildly successful flavored water company for $70 million. But one day, Michael collapses in his office. Four minutes and eight seconds after his cardiac arrest, a portable defibrillator jump-starts his heart. But in those lost minutes he becomes a different man. Money is meaningless to him-and he wants to give it all away. Julia, who sees bits of her life reflected in scenes from the world's great operas, is now facing with a choice she never anticipated. Should she should walk away from the man she once adored-but who truthfully became a stranger to her long before this pronouncement-or give in to her husband's pleas for a second chance and a promise of a poorer but happier life? As wry and engaging as her debut, but with quiet depth and newfound maturity, Skipping a Beat is an unforgettable portrait of a marriage whose glamorous surface belies the complications and betrayals beneath. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Spouses -- Fiction.
|
|
Successful people -- Fiction.
|
|
Life change events -- Fiction.
|
|
Downward mobility (Social sciences) -- Fiction.
|
|
Marital conflict -- Fiction.
|
|
Quality of life -- Fiction.
|
|
Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction.
|
| Added Author |
Maby, Madeleine, narrator.
|
|
hoopla digital.
|
| ISBN |
9781442364523 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
|
1442364521 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12207173 |
|
More Resources
