The Perfect Age
eBook - ePub

The Perfect Age

A Novel

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Perfect Age

A Novel

About this book

A sun-baked, beautifully observed debut for readers who loved Amy and Isabelleā€”a mother and daughter come of age in Las Vegas.

Helen is just fifteen, lanky and striking. She is a lifeguard at the pool at The Dunes hotel this summerā€”her first job, a step toward independence in a world beginning to treat her as an adult and a woman. Her mother, Kathy, watching Helen grow up, suddenly finds herself in a place equally uncertain: her children getting older, her stable marriage perhaps too stable, the slow days of summer leaving her adrift. When she meets Helen's boss, the manager at the pool, she chooses an affair that opens her to the idea of a different sort of life. Following Helen and Kathy through three summers, this novel is an intimate picture of two sexual awakenings under one roof and their aftershocks on a family. Heather Skyler shows us that the validity of life's deepest experiencesā€”love, betrayal, acceptanceā€”is never compromised by age. Reading group guide included.

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Information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2005
eBook ISBN
9780393248647
Edition
0
Subtopic
Literature General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Book One: The First Summer
  4. Book Two: The Second Summer
  5. Book Three: The Last Summer
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Praise for THE PERFECT AGE
  8. Reading Group Guide
  9. Copyright