The Wedding by Imraan Coovadia
In Danielle Steel's #1 New York Times bestseller, a Hollywood wedding sets the scene for a vivid portrayal of a prominent family whose hopes and fears are as real as our own. Simon Steinberg, a major movie producer, and Blaire Scott, an award-winning television writer, are among the most respected couples in Hollywood. They have defied the cliches, keeping their marriage together for decades. Their children--Samantha, Scott, and Allegra--are successful and happy, but must face the challenges we fear for our own children as well. As an attorney for the stars, twenty-nine-year-old Allegra Steinberg is used to negotiating major movie deals, and fielding phone calls at all hours of the day and night. But she has little time for a private life--until a chance encounter with a New York writer turns her life upside down. Suddenly, Allegra finds herself planning a wedding at her parents' Bel Air home. As preparations begin for a September ceremony, surprise announcements and ever-increasing anxiety bring out the best and worst in everyone. But as couples in each generation of the Steinberg family struggle with broken vows and new hopes, the real meaning of Allegra's wedding emerges. For the bride, the ceremony is a bridge between her past and her future. For her parents, it is a reminder of the bond that holds them all together. And for both families, it is an opportunity for reconciliation, and new hope. In a compelling portrait of real people in an unreal world, Danielle Steel uses Hollywood as a backdrop to reveal the dreams, the fears, and expectations of a ceremony that unites us all and changes lives forever.The Wedding.
Phantasmagoric scenes of the descendants of black miners wrapping themselves in the skins of hunted whites and of AI-operated bulldozers breaking through the dome walls surrounding iridescent chronogates nicely illustrate Coovadia's twisty plot and ingenious resolution.--Nisi Shawl, author of Everfair Coovadia's latest may require some rereading to fully understand what happened, but it will be worth it for the twists and turns as the plot winds to its conclusion.
--Booklist Imraan Coovadia's A Spy in Time tosses us in a blender of space and time, through the travels and trials of Enver Eleven, a philosopher of a secret agent, tasked with saving humanity. Gripping and inventive. ―Ayesha Harruna Attah, author of The Hundred Wells of Salaga Riveting and inventive, Coovadia delivers the goods in a rollicking tale across time and perception.
―Gary Phillips, editor of The Obama Inheritance A solid, well-told science-fiction story that, like the best examples of the genre, offers imaginative and intelligent contemplation of where we might end up, while also providing a space for the contemplation of where we are now and how we got here.
--The Sunday Times Quite a good story, too--not going to space-operatic lengths but rather focusing only on the essential. Coovadia is a talented writer, and the story flows--even with it's wild jumps (in time)--smoothly and engagingly.
--Complete Review Coovadia's style is crisp and clean, his characters intriguing and his ideas edgy. He obviously enjoys mystifying his readers, shaking them up and ensuring they sink into the quick-sands of his creation.
--Jennifer de Klerk, Artslink.co.za
--Booklist Imraan Coovadia's A Spy in Time tosses us in a blender of space and time, through the travels and trials of Enver Eleven, a philosopher of a secret agent, tasked with saving humanity. Gripping and inventive. ―Ayesha Harruna Attah, author of The Hundred Wells of Salaga Riveting and inventive, Coovadia delivers the goods in a rollicking tale across time and perception.
―Gary Phillips, editor of The Obama Inheritance A solid, well-told science-fiction story that, like the best examples of the genre, offers imaginative and intelligent contemplation of where we might end up, while also providing a space for the contemplation of where we are now and how we got here.
--The Sunday Times Quite a good story, too--not going to space-operatic lengths but rather focusing only on the essential. Coovadia is a talented writer, and the story flows--even with it's wild jumps (in time)--smoothly and engagingly.
--Complete Review Coovadia's style is crisp and clean, his characters intriguing and his ideas edgy. He obviously enjoys mystifying his readers, shaking them up and ensuring they sink into the quick-sands of his creation.
--Jennifer de Klerk, Artslink.co.za
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780312306120 |
| ISBN 10 | 0312306121 |
| Title | The Wedding |
| Author | Imraan Coovadia |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | St Martin's Press |
| Year published | 2002-12-06 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |