Product Description
Isabel Gary finally has it all: a rising career as a TV producer, a warm relationship with Marshall, the man who wants to marry her, and a tenuous rapport with her rebellious teenage daughter, Denny. But in the blink of an eye, everything changes.
When Denny runs away, Isabel's world falls apart. Marshall is incapable of understanding her anguish over her daughter's disappearance, and just when she needs him most he, too, runs away.
Alone, Isabel must deal with the mounting pressures of a competitively cutthroat job, her anxiety over Denny's whereabouts, and the entrance into her life of Brian, whose motives may or may not be honorable.
Review:
Publishers Weekly, September 1977
Isabel Gary is a 40-year-old widow and a caring mother. Although she has a successful career on television, her troubled relationship with her 18-year-old daughter is undermining her confidence. When Denise runs away, Isabel's life starts to unravel and her emotional fragility is revealed. Allen's heroines are grownups, in the best sense of the word. They are complicated and sometimes despairing, but they hang on. The author is at the top of her form here, writing with great sensitivity about the pitfalls of mother-daughter relationships and the inevitable disappointments of child-rearing.
When Denny runs away, Isabel's world falls apart. Marshall is incapable of understanding her anguish over her daughter's disappearance, and just when she needs him most he, too, runs away.
Alone, Isabel must deal with the mounting pressures of a competitively cutthroat job, her anxiety over Denny's whereabouts, and the entrance into her life of Brian, whose motives may or may not be honorable.
Review:
Publishers Weekly, September 1977
Isabel Gary is a 40-year-old widow and a caring mother. Although she has a successful career on television, her troubled relationship with her 18-year-old daughter is undermining her confidence. When Denise runs away, Isabel's life starts to unravel and her emotional fragility is revealed. Allen's heroines are grownups, in the best sense of the word. They are complicated and sometimes despairing, but they hang on. The author is at the top of her form here, writing with great sensitivity about the pitfalls of mother-daughter relationships and the inevitable disappointments of child-rearing.
