The Gift (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780440221319)

On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget.

The time is the 1950s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams, and family was, very nearly, everything. The place is a small midwestern town with a high school and a downtown, a skating pond and a movie house. And on a tree-lined street in the heartland of America, an extraordinary set of events begins to unfold. And gradually what seems serendipitous is tinged with purpose. A happy home is shattered by a child's senseless death. A loving marriage starts to unravel. And a stranger arrives--a young woman who will touch many lives before she moves on. She and a young man will meet and fall in love. Their love, so innocent and full of hope, helps to restore a family's dreams. And all of their lives will be changed forever by the precious gift she leaves them.

The Gift, Danielle Steel's thirty-third best-selling work, is a magical story told with stunning simplicity and power. It reveals a relationship so moving it will take your breath away. And it tells a haunting and beautiful truth about the unpredictability--and the wonder--of life.

Author: Danielle Steel
ISBN-10: 0440221315
ISBN-13: 9780440221319
Publisher: Dell
Language: English
Published: 02/05/1996
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 7.01h x 4.04w x 0.79d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.5
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 83334 / Gift


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/08/1996 pg. 66