An edition of South Mountain Road (2000)

South Mountain Road

a daughter's journey of discovery

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An edition of South Mountain Road (2000)

South Mountain Road

a daughter's journey of discovery

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"When Hesper Anderson, the daughter of famed Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Maxwell Anderson (What Price Glory?, Winterset, Key Largo, The Bad Seed), got the phone call informing her that her mother, the beautiful, enigmatic Mab, had committed suicide, she knew that her world would be forever changed. A woman of baffling remoteness and alienating beauty, Mab Anderson had been the dominant figure in her daughter's life.

What Hesper did not realize, however, was that beyond the inevitable devastation of loss lay a whole chain of discoveries that would link her irrevocably both to her mother's past and to secrets that would turn her world upside down." "Hesper was a shy young girl, insecure and - to her mindinadequate.".

"It was to be expected, then, that when a handsome young author, himself an outsider, brought into the charmed world of South Mountain Road by Maxwell Anderson, showed Hesper special attention, she developed a schoolgirl crush on him. It was an attachment that endured for years and continued to haunt the impressionable young girl to the brink of womanhood and beyond, leading, perhaps inevitably, to an emotional crisis almost as devastating as her mother's death.".

"Hesper was away from South Mountain Road, off at college, when she got the call that her mother was dead. When that call came, Hesper began what was in effect a journey of discovery - an immersion in the past that revealed unexpected facts about herself, about the world she had grown up in, and most especially about the two people who were her parents. What she discovered in the end was a series of shocking secrets, some terrible truths, and her own broken heart."--BOOK JACKET.

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Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Pages
286

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South Mountain Road: A Daughter's Journey of Discovery
April 26, 2002, Simon & Schuster
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Cover of: South Mountain Road
South Mountain Road: a daughter's journey of discovery
2000, Simon & Schuster
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
812/.52, B
Library of Congress
PS3501.N256 Z545 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
286 p. :
Number of pages
286

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL49563M
Internet Archive
southmountainroa00ande
ISBN 10
0684859017
LCCN
99052819
OCLC/WorldCat
42733859
Library Thing
1952560
Goodreads
2541257

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