An edition of While I Was Gone (1999)

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An edition of While I Was Gone (1999)

While I Was Gone

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In the summer of 1968, Jo Becker ran out on the marriage and the life her parents wanted for her, and escaped - for one beautiful, idyllic year - into a life that was bohemian and romantic, living under an assumed name in a rambling group house in Cambridge. It was a time of limitless possibility, but it ended in a single instant when Jo returned home one night to find her best friend lying dead in a pool of blood on the living room floor.

Now Jo has everything she's ever wanted: a veterinary practice she loves, a devoted husband, three grown daughters, a beautiful Massachusetts farmhouse.

And if occasionally she feels a stranger to herself and wonders what happened to the freedom she once felt, or how she came to be the wife, mother, and doctor her neighbors know and trust - if at times she feels as if her whole life is vanishing behind her as she's living it - she need only look at her daughters or her husband, Daniel, to recall the satisfactions of family and community and marriage.

But when an old housemate settles in her small town, the fabric of Jo's life begins to unravel: seduced again by the enticing possibility of another self and another life, she begins a dangerous flirtation that returns her to the darkest moment of her past and imperils all she loves.

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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
352

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Cover of: While I Was Gone
While I Was Gone
January 8, 2008, RH Audio
Audio CD in English - Abridged edition
Cover of: While I Was Gone
While I Was Gone
2006, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Paperback
Cover of: While I was gone
While I was gone
2002, Ballantine Books
in English - Mass Market ed.
Cover of: While I Was Gone
While I Was Gone
November 26, 2002, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: While I Was Gone
While I Was Gone
January 7, 2002, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: While I Was Gone (Large Print)
While I Was Gone (Large Print)
May 23, 2000, Random House Large Print
in English
Cover of: While I was gone
While I was gone
1999, Bloomsbury
in English
Cover of: While I was gone
While I was gone
1999, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: While I was gone
While I was gone
1999, Knopf
in English - 1st ed.

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First Sentence

"IT'S ODD, I SUPPOSE, THAT WHEN I THINK BACK OVER all that happened in that terrible time, one of my sharpest memories should be of some few moments the day before everything began."

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Format
Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages
352
Dimensions
6.9 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
Weight
5.6 ounces

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Open Library
OL9701940M
Internet Archive
whileiwasgonemill00mill
ISBN 10
0345420748
ISBN 13
9780345420749
OCLC/WorldCat
51164380
Library Thing
5538
Goodreads
15819

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First Sentence

"IT'S ODD, I SUPPOSE, THAT WHEN I THINK BACK OVER all that happened in that terrible time, one of my sharpest memories should be of some few moments the day before everything began."

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