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Jodi Picoult's special skill is to conjure up relationship and family dramas so real, and so complex, that the reader is almost living them.
Book Description
A life hanging in the balance ... a family torn apart. The #1 internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells an unforgettable story about family, love, and letting go.
Edward Warren, twenty-four, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: His dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara.
With her father's chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father's organs. Is he motivated by altruism, or revenge? And to what lengths will his sister go to stop him from making an irrevocable decision?
Lone Wolf explores the notion of family, and the love, protection and strength it's meant to offer. But what if the hope that should sustain it, is the very thing that pulls it apart? Another tour de force from Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf examines the wild and lonely terrain upon which love battles reason.
About the Author
Jodi Picoult is the author of 18 bestselling and widely acclaimed novels. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Read more about Jodi on her website www.jodipicoult.com.au
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Could not put down other books of Jodie's - this one not that type of read
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I found the book a good example of a man who was trying to remain to be seen as a responsible husband who had in fact used his interest to escape from what he saw as a bond.
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Jodi Picoult's special skill is to conjure up relationship and family dramas so real, and so complex, that the reader is almost living them.
In Lone Wolf, Jodi is right on the money with the tale of a family that is both estranged and emeshed, all battling over decisions around whether or not to turn off the life support for the father, and all questioning each other's motivations and intentions. This intersection of medical science and morals is Jodi at her best.
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Publishers Weekly
Picoult returns with two provocative questions: can a human join a wolf pack, and who has the right to make end-of-life decisions? Luke Warren, a vital free spirit, has devoted himself to understanding wolf behavior, to the point of having once abandoned his family to live with wolves. Now divorced and raising his 17-year-old daughter, Cara, near his wolf compound, Luke sustains a traumatic brain injury in an accident. His ex-wife, Georgie, remarried to a lawyer, summons Cara’s brother, Edward, from Thailand, where he’s lived for years alienated from his family, who assume the estrangement stems from his father’s rejection of Edward’s homosexuality. Cara wants to keep her father on life support; Edward struggles with resentment but believes his father wouldn’t want to exist in a vegetative state. As Cara and Edward navigate their own conflicts and Luke languishes in a coma, Picoult folds in mesmerizing excerpts of Luke’s book about life with the wolves. There are no surprises, as Picoult (My Sister’s Keeper) as usual probes intriguing matters of the heart while introducing her fans to subjects they might not otherwise explore. You can always count on Picoult for a terrific page-turner about a compelling subject.
Agent: Laura Gross, Laura Gross Literary Agency. (Feb. 28)
ISBN: 9781742379067
ISBN-10: 1742379060
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 432
Published: 7th March 2012
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Dimensions (cm): 24.0 x 16.0
Weight (kg): 0.5
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