At Paradise Gate
Jane Smiley
In At Paradise Gate, Pulitzer Prize-winner And Bestselling Author Jane Smiley Paints With Searing Accuracy A Portrait Of A Marriage At Breaking Point And One Family's Struggle For Survival. While Seventy-seven-year-old Ike Robison Is Dying In His Bedroom Upstairs, His Wife, Anna, Must Defend All That They Have Built Together Through-out Their Lengthy Marriage As Their House Is Invaded By Their Three Interfering - Albeit Loving - Middle-aged Daughters And Their Twenty-three Year Old Grand-daughter, Christine. Set Over A Three-day Period Of Family Crisis, Anna Reflects Over All That Has Happened, And All That Is Still Left To Come, In This Compelling And Gracefully Wrought Depiction Of A Marriage.
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