[bksvol-discuss] Just submitted
- From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:17:54 -0600
Hi, all.
I have just submitted Lace by Shirley Conran for your validating pleasure. It's
a long book, close to 500 pages, if I remember correctly. Kurzy gave it a 99.7
rating. Page breaks have been protected, and errors fixed. Some work might need
to be done with headers, but, other than that, I think it looks clean.
As always, if you have any questions, contact:
solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx
Here's a synopsis:
Four elegant, successful, sophisticated women in their forties have been called
to the Pierre Hotel in New York to meet Lili, the world- famous movie actress.
Already a legend despite her youth, Lili is beautiful, passionate, notoriously
temperamental Each of the four has reason to hate Lili.
And each of them is astonished to see the others; for they are old friends
who first met in school, old friends who share a guilty secret- old friends
whose lives are changed when Lili suddenly confronts them and asks: "Which one
of you bitches is my mother?"
The answer to this question-a question that has obsessed and almost destroyed
Lili-is at the heart of Lace. As the reader travels from an elegant Swiss
finishing school in Gstaad to the glittering places where the rich and
successful congregate, the book traces not only the life of Lili
herself-abandoned, seduced, exploited, but at last rising to triumph as a
star-but the lives of the four women, one of whom is her mother.
Lace goes to the very heart of a woman's sensibilities, ambitions, sexual
needs, and desire for success in a changing world, as we watch the women give
up their childhood romantic illusions to face life-a life of loves that don't
always work out, dreams that sometimes don't come true, hard choices that have
to be faced.
Shirley Conran has captured the intimate secrets, the guilts, and the passions
of every woman who has experienced the childhood dreams of great romance-and
the realities of womanhood.
No reader will fail to find some part of herself and her experience in the
lives of these five unforgettable women -
Judy, the tough, self-reliant American girl who seems invulnerable to her rich
friends, and claws her way up to become the editor-in-chief of America's most
outspoken women's magazine... Pagan, the quiet, aristocratic English girl who
captures the heart of a prince-and at last finds a kind of peace in a marriage
that is at once a passion and a sacrifice... Kate, the best-selling writer,
famous, envied, glamorous, who can never get enough success to pay her father
back for what he did; and who, like the three women she has known all her life,
may be, in fact, Lili's mother... Maxine, the haute bourgeoise Parisienne who
marries the man of her dreams, a French aristocrat of ancient lineage, only to
find that even the most ideal marriage sometimes goes wrong... And Lili
herself, the tormented child who learns to use sex as a weapon, who cannot find
peace until she knows which one of these women is her mother, and who may be
destroyed by finding out who her father is - for that is the deepest secret the
four women she has brought together have been hiding since the time when one
terrible night
turned them from schoolgirls into women
Lace is rich in incident, in detail, in story. But the true subject of this
spellbinding novel is femininity itself, as fragile as the lace these women
love and wear, as intricately woven, as subtle-and as strong.
Shannon
Who can heal, but one who has healed herself?
Who can know, but one who has asked and sought?
Who can lead, but one who has traveled the way?
--ancient French proverb
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