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The Lucky Ones (book)
''The Lucky Ones'' is a 2003 book of stories written by British author Rachel Cusk. Billed as a novel, it consists of five stories mainly concerned with the subject of family relationships, about five different people who are loosely connected to each other. Contents *"Confinement" concerns Kirsty, a young pregnant woman who is serving a life sentence after being wrongly convicted of arson and murder. *"The Way You Do It" sees Martin, a male friend of one of Kirsty's legal representatives, spending a holiday in Switzerland with friends – and away from his young family for the first time *In "The Sacrifice", an unnamed woman (the sister of another of the solicitor's friends) recalls her broken marriage during a visit to her childhood home. *"Mrs Daley's Daughter" concerns Barbara Daley (the mother of another of the friends), who fails to recognise and understand her daughter's postnatal depression. *And in the final story, "Matters of Life and Death", Vanessa (one of Barbar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lucky One (novel)
''The Lucky One'' is a 2008 romance novel by American writer Nicholas Sparks. U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman half-buried in the dirt during his first deployment in the Iraq War. He carries the photo in his pocket and soon wins a streak of poker games, then survives a battle that kills two of his closest buddies. His best friend, Victor, seems to have an explanation for his good fortune: the photograph, his lucky charm. Back home in Colorado, Thibault begins to believe that the woman in the photo somehow holds the key to his destiny. He sets out on a journey across the country with his German shepherd, Zeus, to find her and eventually encounters Elizabeth "Beth" Green, a divorced mother with a young son, Ben, in North Carolina. Caught off guard by the attraction he feels, Thibault keeps the story of the photo and his luck a secret. He and Beth begin a passionate love affair, but the secret of the photo soon threatens to tear them apart, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |