Jewel - (Oprah's Book Club) by Bret Lott (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><i>Jewel</i> is the story of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass.</b> <p/>In the backwoods of Mississippi, a land of honeysuckle and grapevine, Jewel and her husband, Leston, are truly blessed; they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most welcome. <p/>In this story of a woman's devotion to the child who is both her burden and God's singular way of smiling on her, Bret Lott has created a mother-daughter relationship of matchless intensity and beauty, and one of the finest, most indomitable heroines in contemporary American fiction.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>The Boston Globe</i> Bret Lott has a gift for making the ordinary seem luminous. In <i>Jewel, </i> he applies his art to a broad canvas and produces what may stand as his masterpiece....Lott matches the honest strength of his characters with that of his prose. His Jewel is a force of nature, her story rising out of a perfect, seamless union of teller and tale.<br><br><i>The Chicago Tribune</i> Bret Lott's <i>Jewel</i> is a beautifully crafted first-person epic of one poor southern woman's personal duel with God....This is a voice we don't want to stop hearing....Some of the tenderest scenes of family love since those in Dickens....<br><br><i>The Los Angeles Times</i> Lott is one of the most important and imaginative writers in America today. His eye for detail is unparalleled; his vision -- <i>where</i> he looks -- is like no one else's in this country.<br><br><i>The New York Times Book Review</i> Sweeping and beautifully written....a parable for our age.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Bret Lott</b> is a native of Los Angeles, California. His parents were raised in Mississippi and East Texas and relocated to Los Angeles in the 1950s. It is this Southern heritage -- going all the way back to the War Between the States -- that Mr. Lott has drawn on in writing <i>Jewel.</i> He is the author of five highly acclaimed novels, <i>The Man Who Owned Vermont, A Stranger's House, Jewel, Reed's Beach, </i> and <i>The Hunt Club, </i> as well as two collections of widely anthologized short stories, <i>A Dream of Old Leaves</i> and <i>How to Get Home, </i> and a memoir, <i>Fathers, Sons, and Brothers.</i> He lives with his wife and two sons near Charleston, South Carolina, and teaches at the College of Charleston and Vermont Colle
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