{"product_id":"mother-and-son-therese-lund-9781412053204","title":"Mother and Son","description":"\u003cp\u003e This novel stimulates intense thought.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e An artistic and disillusioned career woman, Helen lets her bright eighteen years old son Peter, read her diary, add his comments and narratives to it, thus to create literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe experiment succeeds splendidly. An exciting, very original novel is created.\u003c\/p\u003e The format is obviously a \"novelty\", the candor of Helen's self - revelations extraordinary, and there is conspicuous originality in Peter's commentary. Putting himself at an \"aesthetic distance\" from his mother, he refers to her constantly as Helen, someone not quite familiar to him. \u003cp\u003eYet it is the ingenious use of all the content in this novel that impresses as innovative artistry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe merit of the book also includes: allusions to music and musical themes for all chapters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHelen releases practically a Pandora's box in her diary because all blessings and curses of life are elucidated by sparkling dialogues between fascinating people in this novel (the dialogues make possibly its Tour de Force).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscussions become particularly ardent when Helen's sublime lover, Claude, enters as spokesman for truth, freedom and passion: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThere are also cases of actual drama revealed in the diary: unemployment, drug addiction, furious battles of sexes, untimely deaths, a strange suicide - even a patricide, but all descriptions of turbulent life relate effectively to a central theme, a career woman's always original story.\u003c\/p\u003e Read this stunning novel!  \u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Therese Lund\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 141205320X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781412053204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trafford Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Therese Lund","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48485095866623,"sku":"9781412053204","price":31.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e0e60424-d736-4ee7-9127-ac5bb825ef76.jpg?v=1778047879","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mother-and-son-therese-lund-9781412053204","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}