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The Good Daughters

A Novel

Joyce Maynard

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Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard has been a reporter for the New York Times, a magazine journalist, radio commentator, and syndicated columnist, as well as the author of six novels, including To Die For and Labor Day, and four books of nonfiction. Her bestselling memoir, At Home in the World, has been translated into nine languages. Her novel The Usual Rules—a story about surviving loss—has been a favorite of book club audiences of all ages, and was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books for Young Readers in 2003. The mother of three grown children, and two daughters recently adopted from Ethiopia, she makes her home in Mill Valley, CA.



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Labor Day
Joyce Maynard
  • Hardcover
  • 9780061843402
  • 7/28/2009
  • $24.99 ($32.99 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
Labor Day
Joyce Maynard
  • Trade PB
  • 9780061843419
  • 8/3/2010
  • $13.99 ($15.99 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
 
Labor Day LP
Joyce Maynard
  • Large Print
  • 9780061893926
  • 7/28/2009
  • $24.99 ($32.99 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
 

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The Good Daughters LP
The Good Daughters LP
Joyce Maynard
  • Large Print
  • 9780062002129
  • 8/24/2010
  • $24.99 ($28.99)
 

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Praise for The Good Daughters:

The Good Daughters gives us a broad span of years in the lives of Ruth Plank and Dana Dickerson. One a dreamy artist and the other a scientist, these two women seemingly couldn’t be more different from one another. Nonetheless, they share a deep and mysterious bond, one that is gradually and artfully revealed. One of the many things I admired about this novel was its respect for nature, for the seasons of both the land and the heart. I am hard pressed to think of anything I’ve read that more honestly and eloquently expresses both the perils and the pleasures of love. Joyce Maynard has outdone herself in this beautifully written story you’ll find hard to put down, and impossible to forget. Full of modern sensibilities, this is also a good old fashioned novel, rich in story, characterization, and import.”


- Elizabeth Berg, author of The Last Time I Saw You
“The gentle rhythms of rural life, the granite landscape of New Hampshire, characters who exist so completely...Joyce Maynard draws me into the world of The Good Daughters, weaves a story of choices and events so intimate I felt I was part of it. The novel is wrenching, the emotions radiant, and will leave readers transformed.”
 


- Luanne Rice, author of The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners
Praise for Labor Day:

“Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with Labor Day. From the perfect pitch of a teenaged boy narrator to the eloquent message of how loneliness can bind people together, this is simply a novel you cannot miss.”


- Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Handle With Care
"Labor Day is suffused with tenderness, dreaminess and love . . . first and foremost a page-turner . . . [it] puts back together the world that it destroys . . . .you definitely need to get a box of tissues."


- Newsday
"[The] story is moving and fast-moving, affirming Maynard's reputation as a master storyteller and showing her to be a passionate humanist with a gifted ear and heart. . . . Maynard illuminates the human experience."


- People (Four Stars)
"[A] sweet, swift read that will leave you feeling good."


- Minneapolis Star Tribune
Labor Day is a sexy, page turning, poignant story told by a sweetly baffled young hero, perhaps the best kind of hero to narrate any tale. Joyce Maynard is at her finest.”


- Jane Hamilton, author of Laura Rider’s Masterpiece and A Map of the World
“I ask one thing of a novel: that it makes me feel as if it’s a life I am living rather than a book I am reading. Labor Day, for me, is that long-sought-for novel—smart, wry in all the right places, deeply felt, beautifully observed. I was enthralled and moved and grateful to Joyce Maynard for creating such quirkily lovable and unforgettable characters. What a pleasure.”


- Elinor Lipman, author of The Family Man
"But apart from being a successful thriller, this book is a fascinating portrait of what causes a family to founder, and how much it can cost to put it back on the right path. "


- NPR.org
“Surely Joyce Maynard is one of our best storytellers. And Labor Day is her best novel yet. It is such a generous book, full of love and hope. Long after I finished reading it, I was full of all it gave me: the joys of a perfect pie, of babies, and of love.”


- Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle and Comfort
"Beautifully written."


- New Orleans Times-Picayune
"A sometimes painful tale, but captivating and surprisingly moving."


- Publishers Weekly
"Joyce Maynard's Labor Day [is] a story so compelling, many readers will finish it in one sitting. And then read it again. . . . Labor Day is a page-turner, from the beginning lines . . . to the final chapters. . . . Maynard is in top form in this tale of love, betrayal and forgiveness."


- Associated Press
"Joyce Maynard is one of those blessed authors who can compress al lifetime's worth of ideas and emotions into a spare piece of work. The closest comparison I can make is Ian McEwan, whose Atonement has some of the same elements as Maynard's latest novel: the pangs of adolescence, the roller-coaster swells and dips of love and loss, a devastating betrayal from an intimate source. . . . Maynard has forged an indelible, precise portrait of early adolescence. It's a perfect late-summer book, a page-turner that also makes you think."


- Dallas Morning News
"It is a testament to Maynard's skill that she makes this ominous setup into a convincing and poignant coming-of-age tale."


- Washington Post
"Maynard expertly tugs heartstrings in a tidy tale. "


- Kirkus Reviews
"Unique and chilling."


- Detroit News
"Surprisingly moving."


- Arizona Republic
"A haunting and hopeful story."


- Hartford Courant