06101cam a2200769 4500 526637404 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780812988475 0812988477 B00X2FDZ3Y Amazon d2331584-75a0-4762-95b3-4da640194399 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 15373 15373 15373 2411712 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bock, Charles. Alice & Oliver [Libby] : A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2016. family. Friendship. literary fiction. relationship. romance. Contemporary Women's Fiction. contemporary fiction. Saga. Female friendship. marriage. families. cancer. love story. women. romantic. Genre Fiction. Drama. Women's Fiction. womens fiction. Modern. Contemporary. Contemporary Romance. Contemporary Women. Chick Lit. Medical. Healthcare System. dating and relationships. romance novels. contemporary literary fiction. family life novel. parenthood fiction. romance contemporary. mom books. relationship books. romance modern. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 7053kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1965kB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:The award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Children has created an unflinching yet deeply humane portrait of a young family’s journey through a medical crisis, laying bare a couple’s love and fears as they fight for everything that’s important to them. New York, 1993. Alice Culvert is a caring wife, a doting new mother, a loyal friend, and a soulful artist—a fashion designer who wears a baby carrier and haute couture with equal aplomb. In their loft in Manhattan’s gritty Meatpacking District, Alice and her husband, Oliver, are raising their infant daughter, Doe, delighting in the wonders of early parenthood. Their life together feels so vital and full of promise, which makes Alice’s sudden cancer diagnosis especially staggering. In the span of a single day, the couple’s focus narrows to the basic question of her survival. Though they do their best to remain brave, each faces enormous pressure: Oliver tries to navigate a labyrinthine healthcare system and handle their mounting medical bills; Alice tries to be hopeful as her body turns against her. Bracing themselves for the unthinkable, they must confront the new realities of their marriage, their strengths as partners and flaws as people, how to nourish love against all odds, and what it means to truly care for another person.  Inspired by the author’s life, Alice & Oliver is a deeply affecting novel written with stunning reserves of compassion, humor, and wisdom. Alice Culvert is an extraordinary character—a woman of incredible heart and spirit—who will remain in memory long after the final page. Praise for Alice & Oliver “This hauntingly powerful novel follows a family’s fight for survival in the face of illness. A stirring elegy to a marriage.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “A rewarding reading experience . . . a testament to the resilience of humans and our willingness to forgive.”—San Francisco Chronicle “The novel’s power is in its two characters’ messy negotiation of their fears, errors and shifting affections. . . . Bock offers a forceful reminder that there are plenty of roiling emotions underneath that till-death-do-us-part.”—Los Angeles Times “[A] heart-wrenching story of a young couple whose lives change when Alice gets diagnosed with cancer . . . a refreshingly unsentimental look at the vicious disease.”—Entertainment Weekly “Alice & Oliver [has a] tough-minded commitment to truth-telling.”—The Washington Post “Even more than the meticulous details of drugs, treatments and side effects, Bock’s tender portrayal of [his characters] in all their desolation gives [Alice & Oliver] its ring of truth. . . . I loved this novel.”—Marion Winik, Newsday “Alice & Oliver shows that, even in a situation that’s about as terrible as it can be, there can still exist happiness, surprise, and life, that strange strong spirit that’s with us until the end.”—The Boston Globe “The most honest, unsentimentally powerful novel about cancer that I’ve ever read.”—Michael Christie, The Globe & Mail “Wrenchingly powerful . . . Bock chronicles the daily struggles of a young wife and mother facing her own imminent mortality. This is a soul portrait of a family in crisis, written with a fearless clarity... Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d2331584-75a0-4762-95b3-4da640194399&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d2331584-75a0-4762-95b3-4da640194399&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d2331584-75a0-4762-95b3-4da640194399&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)