Four Days - Gloria Goldreich

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Résumé :
Gloria Goldreich is the author of Leah's Journey, which won the National Jewish Book Award for fiction, and of its sequel Leah's Children. Four Days received the Jewish Federation Arts and Letters Award and West to Eden was the featured selection of the Troll Book Club. Her subsequent novels for adults as well as for younger readers have received critical acclaim. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Commentary, Moment, McCall's, Redbook, Ms., Ladies Home Journal, Chatelaine and other publications. The mother of three adult children and the grandmother of eight widely scattered grandchildren, she and her attorney husband reside in Westchester County, New York....

Biographie:
Gloria Goldreich is the author of Leah's Journey, which won the National Jewish Book Award for fiction, and of its sequel Leah's Children. Four Days received the Jewish Federation Arts and Letters Award and West to Eden was the featured selection of the Troll Book Club. Her subsequent novels for adults as well as for younger readers have received critical acclaim. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Commentary, Moment, McCall's, Redbook, Ms., Ladies Home Journal, Chatelaine and other publications. The mother of three adult children and the grandmother of eight widely scattered grandchildren, she and her attorney husband reside in Westchester County, New York....

Sommaire:
WINNER: Jewish Federation Arts and Letters Award Past and future converge in the brief span of four days as Ina Feldman, a happily married professional woman and the mother of two much-loved children, whose dreams are haunted by her childhood in a Nazi death camp, confronts an agonizing decision. An unplanned pregnancy has disrupted her contented life, and although she is fiercely pro-choice, given her own history, she wrestles with the option of abortion. Suspense prevails as family and friends share dramatic revelations and advice. She ultimately reaches a certainty, vested with compassion and courage....