Sisters by Carol Saline

Sisters by Carol Saline

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOK OF THE YEAR

A] skillfully crafted gothic mystery . . . Johnson pulls off a great feat in this book. --Financial Times

It reminded me, in its general refusal to play nice, of early Ian McEwan. --The New York Times Book Review

Johnson crafts an aching thriller about the dangers of loving too intensely. --Time

From a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: a blazing portrait of one darkly riveting sibling relationship, from the inside out.

One of her generation's most intriguing authors (Entertainment Weekly), Daisy Johnson is the youngest writer to have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Now she returns with Sisters, a haunting story about two sisters caught in a powerful emotional web and wrestling to understand where one ends and the other begins.

Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a case of school bullying, the teens have moved away with their single mother to a long-abandoned family home near the shore. In their new, isolated life, July finds that the deep bond she has always shared with September is shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand. A creeping sense of dread and unease descends inside the house. Meanwhile, outside, the sisters push boundaries of behavior--until a series of shocking encounters tests the limits of their shared experience, and forces shocking revelations about the girls' past and future.

Written with radically inventive language and imagery by an author whose work has been described as entrancing (The New Yorker), a force of nature (The New York Times Book Review), and weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling (Celeste Ng), Sisters is a one-two punch of wild fury and heartache--a taut, powerful, and deeply moving account of sibling love and what happens when two sisters must face each other's darkest impulses.

Carol Saline is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, author of three books, and co-author of three photo-essay books.Since 1974, Carol Saline has worked as a senior writer at Philadelphia Magazine, where she specializes in health, profiles, and investigative reporting. Her articles have appeared in many national magazines, including Reader's Digest, Family Circle, More, Redbook, and Cosmo Girl. At present, Carol Saline serves on the boards of The National Osteoporosis Foundation, The Center for Literacy, and The Philadelphia Theater Company. Her roster of community activities includes several years as a volunteer telephone counselor for Contact 609, a mentor with Philadelphia Futures, and board membership with Jewish Family Service of South Jersey, Planned Parenthood of Camden County, The Mayor's Commission on Literacy, and Philadelphia CASA. Sharon J. Wohlmuth is an award-winning photojournalist, lecturer, and co-author of eight photo-essay books. For more than two decades, Wohlmuth was a staff news photographer and photo editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer. She shared a Pulitzer Prize for public service for her coverage of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident and was nominated again for her searing images of dying children in a Somalian refugee camp. Wohlmuth received numerous honors and awards during her journalistic career at The Philadelphia Inquirer a Nieman Foundation for Journalism finalist at Harvard University, The World Press Photo Competition Feature Award, Sigma Delta Chi Best Feature Photograph, New Jersey Press Association: Best of Show, and varied awards from the Philadelphia Press Photographer's Association and the Pennsylvania Press Photographer's Association.

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ISBN 13	9781561384501
ISBN 10	156138450X
Title	Sisters
Author	Carol Saline
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Running Press
Year published	1994-09-29
Number of pages	136
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.