Sweet lamb of heaven : a novel / Marital conflict Mothers and daughters Hiding places Runaway women Political candidates
Millet, Lydia, 1968-
Sweet lamb of heaven : a novel / Lydia Millet. - 250 pages ; 21 cm.
Shatter is the first person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who's just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy motel look like typical tourists, and the less Ned resembles a typical candidate. As his pursuit of Anna and their child moves from threatening to criminal, Ned begins to alter his wife's world in ways she never could have imagined.
9780393354188 9780393285543
Marital conflict--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Hiding places--Fiction.
Runaway women--Fiction.
Political candidates--United States--Alaska--Fiction.
Maine--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction).
813.6
Sweet lamb of heaven : a novel / Lydia Millet. - 250 pages ; 21 cm.
Shatter is the first person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who's just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy motel look like typical tourists, and the less Ned resembles a typical candidate. As his pursuit of Anna and their child moves from threatening to criminal, Ned begins to alter his wife's world in ways she never could have imagined.
9780393354188 9780393285543
Marital conflict--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Hiding places--Fiction.
Runaway women--Fiction.
Political candidates--United States--Alaska--Fiction.
Maine--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction).
813.6