The Perfect AgeThe Perfect Age
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Book, 2004
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Current format, Book, 2004, 1st ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsA sun-baked, beautifully observed debut for readers who loved Amy and Isabellea mother and daughter come of age in Las Vegas. Helen is just fifteen, lanky and striking. She is a lifeguard at the pool at The Dunes hotel this summerher first job, a step toward independence in a world beginning to treat her as an adult and a woman. Her mother, Kathy, watching Helen grow up, suddenly finds herself in a place equally uncertain: her children getting older, her stable marriage perhaps too stable, the slow days of summer leaving her adrift. When she meets Helen's boss, the manager at the pool, she chooses an affair that opens her to the idea of a different sort of life. Following Helen and Kathy through three summers, this novel is an intimate picture of two sexual awakenings under one roof and their aftershocks on a family. Heather Skyler shows us that the validity of life's deepest experienceslove, betrayal, acceptanceis never compromised by age.
When her daughter embarks upon a first job as a hotel pool lifeguard, Kathy, feeling adrift in her too-stable marriage, begins an affair with her daughter's boss, in a story that traces the sexual awakenings of both mother and daughter throughout the course of three summers. A first novel.
When her daughter starts a job as a lifeguard, Kathy, feeling adrift in her marriage, begins an affair with her daughter's boss, in a story that traces the sexual awakenings of both mother and daughter.
When her daughter embarks upon a first job as a hotel pool lifeguard, Kathy, feeling adrift in her too-stable marriage, begins an affair with her daughter's boss, in a story that traces the sexual awakenings of both mother and daughter throughout the course of three summers. A first novel.
When her daughter starts a job as a lifeguard, Kathy, feeling adrift in her marriage, begins an affair with her daughter's boss, in a story that traces the sexual awakenings of both mother and daughter.
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