Joan Hawkins

Bailey (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Bailey: at just ten years old, she shot her mother's lover, Dr. Peabody, rescuing her from a savage beating. Although traumatizing the girl, the incident was never reported due to the doctor's social prominence, and it became submerged in family silence. The child's subsequent heavy drinking drowned the memory until she was fourteen, and became the youngest alcoholic ever admitted to Stockbridge, an exclusive rehabilitation center.

At Stockbridge, Bailey meets Jim Peabody, the twenty-year-old son of the famous doctor. Both suffer from alcoholic amnesia and become acquainted as though for the first time, despite the fact that Bailey had fallen in love with Jim as a child, while he was going out with her older sister, Cary.

The social snobbery that prevented Jim Peabody from marrying Cary now infects the relationship of the hospital's "odd young couple." Preparing Bailey to be his wife, he is training her to speak like a lady. Her ugly, lower class accent is being replaced by the beautiful speech of breeding. Ironically, when Bailey delivers the tone and style of Jim's "lady," she becomes a sewer of pornographic speech.

At Stockbridge, Bailey begins to recover her memory, but Jim does not. She remembers that he was once her sister's boyfriend - the drunken youth whom her mother would not allow in the house. He was also the beautiful blond boy whose humorous attention had made her feel appreciated.

The struggle of Bailey to recover her belief in the goodness of the child she'd been and the growing certainty that Jim Peabody was the hero of her childhood provides the momentum of the story.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Landon Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780983734819
• Artikelnr.: 38230412

Autorenporträt

Joan Hawkins was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She attended Bennington College and New York University. She has lived most of her life in Manhattan, practicing psychotherapy there. Her debut novel, Underwater, was published by GP Putnam in 1974 under the name of Joan Winthrop. The book was critically acclaimed, challenging traditional gender roles and exploring controversial issues of the day. A second edition of Underwater was published on its fortieth anniversary by Landon Books in 2014, and a third, European edition by 451 Editions is out in 2021. Joan's third novel, Trespass, a dark family drama, came out in 2013 and Rematch, her fifth novel, an early take on corporate sexual discrimination, came out in Spring 2021. This is followed in Fall 2021 by the political drama, Family Money. Bailey is the author's second novel.