The Resource This is your life, Harriet Chance!: : a novel
This is your life, Harriet Chance!: : a novel
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Resource Information
The item This is your life, Harriet Chance!: : a novel represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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- Summary
- With Bernard, her husband of fifty-five years, now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise that her late husband had planned. But what she hoped would be a voyage leading to a new lease on life becomes a surprising and revelatory journey into Harriet's past. There, amid the overwhelming buffets and the incessant lounge singers, between the imagined appearances of her late husband and the very real arrival of her estranged daughter midway through the cruise, Harriet is forced to take a long look back, confronting the truth about pivotal events that changed the course of her life. And in the process she discovers that she's been living the better part of that life under entirely false assumptions. In This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! Jonathan Evison has crafted a bighearted novel with an endearing heroine at the helm. Through Harriet, he paints a bittersweet portrait of a postmodern everywoman, her story told with great warmth, humanity, and humor. Part dysfunctional love story, part poignant exploration of the mother-daughter relationship, nothing is what it seems in this tale of acceptance, reexamination, and forgiveness
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Isbn
- 9781616205362
- Label
- This is your life, Harriet Chance!: : a novel
- Title
- This is your life, Harriet Chance!:
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- by Jonathan Evison
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- With Bernard, her husband of fifty-five years, now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise that her late husband had planned. But what she hoped would be a voyage leading to a new lease on life becomes a surprising and revelatory journey into Harriet's past. There, amid the overwhelming buffets and the incessant lounge singers, between the imagined appearances of her late husband and the very real arrival of her estranged daughter midway through the cruise, Harriet is forced to take a long look back, confronting the truth about pivotal events that changed the course of her life. And in the process she discovers that she's been living the better part of that life under entirely false assumptions. In This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! Jonathan Evison has crafted a bighearted novel with an endearing heroine at the helm. Through Harriet, he paints a bittersweet portrait of a postmodern everywoman, her story told with great warmth, humanity, and humor. Part dysfunctional love story, part poignant exploration of the mother-daughter relationship, nothing is what it seems in this tale of acceptance, reexamination, and forgiveness
- Summary
- Embarking on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise, septuagenarian Harriet reunites with her estranged daughter and confronts pivotal events from her life surrounding the true character of the husband who died two years earlier.
- Award
- LibraryReads Favorites, 2015
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10445043
- Cataloging source
- Midwest
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
- hoopla (Digital media service)
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Evison, Jonathan
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Widows
- Mothers and daughters
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- This is your life, Harriet Chance!: : a novel
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- MWT11689632
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9781616205362
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- c
- Publisher number
- MWT11689632
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 11689632
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Label
- This is your life, Harriet Chance!: : a novel
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- MWT11689632
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9781616205362
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- c
- Publisher number
- MWT11689632
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 11689632
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
Subject
- trueHusband and wife
- trueAging
- trueElectronic books
- trueFamily relationships
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueMother and adult daughter
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- truePleasure cruises
- truePsychological fiction
- trueSecrets
- trueSenior women
- trueSeniors
- trueWidows
- Widows -- Fiction
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Central LibraryBorrow it200 SE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Evansville, IN, 47713, US37.971461 -87.565988
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