{"product_id":"absolution-9781526673602","title":"Absolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eA powerful novel about the lives of American wives in 1960s Saigon during the Vietnam War, exploring themes of folly, grace, obligation, sacrifice, and the quest for absolution in a broken world. Based on the New York Times bestseller. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 368 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 31 October 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Top 10 New York Times Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne of the finest contemporary novels I've read... A moral masterpiece\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnn Patchett\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer writing possesses a luminous clarity, a grace, and a scope that fills me with wonder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eRachel Joyce\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDamning and dazzling... The story of a Vietnam we never got in history class.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e----------------\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. The two women form a wary alliance as they struggle to balance the pressure to be respectable wives for their ambitious husbands, with their own dubious impulses to \"do good\" for the people of Vietnam.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSixty years later, Charlene's daughter, spurred by an encounter with an aging Vietnam veteran, reaches out to Tricia. Together, they look back at their time in Saigon, discovering how their lives as women on the periphery—of politics, of history, of war, of their husbands' convictions—have been shaped and burdened by the unintended consequences of America's tragic interference in Southeast Asia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring the disaster of the Vietnam War through the lives built by American wives in 1960s Saigon, this is a virtuosic novel about folly and grace, obligation, sacrifice, and the quest for absolution in a broken world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 478g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 143 x 321 x 34 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781526673602\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alice McDermott","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44770939437306,"sku":"9781526673602","price":13.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1699639192226_book.jpg?v=1699978159","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/absolution-9781526673602","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}