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NAIBA Notables
The Heights by Peter Hedges
The Heights
by Peter Hedges
Dutton
ISBN:780525951131
March 4, 2010 Description:
The Heights is a neighborhood
populated with stay at home mothers who plan themed parties and discuss marriage
over expensive lattes, and Kate wants to fit in, to feel blessedly ordinary. She
and Tom live in this neighborhood, but don't make enough money to feel part of
it. When a fabulously rich woman buys the biggest mansion in the Heights, everything
changes for Kate and Tom. Author Peter Hedges tackles major issues here: fidelity,
parenthood, status culture, and he handles them all with finesse, using a fantastically
dry wit mixed with empathy and humanity, rendering all of his characters flawed,
complex, and ultimately loveable. Bookseller review:
The Heights is a neighborhood populated with stay at home mothers who plan themed parties and discuss marriage over expensive lattes, and Kate wants to fit in, to feel blessedly ordinary. She and Tom live in this neighborhood, but don't make enough money to feel part of it. When a fabulously rich woman buys the biggest mansion in the Heights, everything changes for Kate and Tom. Author Peter Hedges tackles major issues here: fidelity, parenthood, status culture, and he handles them all with finesse, using a fantastically dry wit mixed with empathy and humanity, rendering all of his characters flawed, complex, and ultimately loveable.
Andrea Talarico, Anthology New & Used Books, Scranton, PA
About the author:
Peter Hedges wrote both the novel and the screenplay What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and is the writer-director of Pieces of April and Dan in Real Life. His screenplay for About a Boy was nominated for an Academy Award.
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