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Harvesting the heart

Paige O'Toole Prescott, a gifted portraitist, sets aside her art to support her husband, Nicholas, during his medical training. His wealthy parents reject Paige, who already suffers from self-doubt after being abandoned by her mother. Despite Nicholas's success as a surgeon and the young c...

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Main Author: Picoult, Jodi, 1966- (Author)
Other Authors: Campbell, Cassandra (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: New York : Penguin Audio, p2008.
Subjects:
Parent and child > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Artists > Fiction.
Married people > Fiction.
Heart > Diseases > Fiction.
Women > United States > Fiction.
Mothers > Fiction.
Domestic fiction > Sound recordings.
Summary: Paige O'Toole Prescott, a gifted portraitist, sets aside her art to support her husband, Nicholas, during his medical training. His wealthy parents reject Paige, who already suffers from self-doubt after being abandoned by her mother. Despite Nicholas's success as a surgeon and the young couple's love for each other, the birth of their son catapults them into emotional crisis. Paige's resulting quest for courage and self-confidence forces Nicholas, her parents, and her in-laws to reevaluate their attitudes, standards, and behavior. Picoult considers various forces that can unite or fracture families and examines the complexities of the human heart both literally and figuratively.
Item Description: Unabridged.
Compact discs.
"This audiobook is for the exclusive use of persons unable to read print because of a physical or visual disability".
Physical Description: 15 compact discs (ca. 17 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 12 cm.
ISBN: 9780143143321 (cd)
0143143328 (cd)
Author Notes: Jodi Picoult was born in Nesconset, New York on May 19, 1966. She received a degree in creative writing from Princeton University in 1987 and a master's degree in education from Harvard University. She published two short stories in Seventeen magazine while still in college. Immediately after graduation, she landed a variety of jobs, ranging from editing textbooks to teaching eighth-grade English.

Her first book, Songs of the Humpback Whale, was published in 1992. Her other works include Picture Perfect, Mercy, The Pact, Salem Falls, The Tenth Circle, Nineteen Minutes, Change of Heart, Handle with Care, House Rules, Sing You Home, Lone Wolf, Leaving Time, and Small Great Things. My Sister's Keeper was made into a movie starring Cameron Diaz. She received the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. She also wrote five issues of the Wonder Woman comic book series for DC Comics. She writes young adult novels with her daughter Samantha van Leer including Between the Lines and Off the Page.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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