Paradise Park

A Novel

Allegra Goodman

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English

Bantam USA
15 May 2002

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Allegra Goodman has delighted readers with her critically acclaimed collections Total Immersion and The Family Markowitz, and her celebrated first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, which was a national bestseller and a National Book Award finalist.

Abandoned by her folk-dancing partner, Gary, in a Honolulu hotel room, Sharon realizes she could return to Boston-and her estranged family-or listen to that little voice inside herself. The voice that asks- ""How come Gary got to pursue his causes, while all I got to pursue was him?"" Thus, with an open heart, a soul on fire, and her meager possessions (a guitar, two Indian gauze skirts, a macrame bikini, and her grandfather's silver watch) Sharon begins her own spiritual quest. Ever the optimist, she is sure at each stage that she has struck it rich ""spiritually speaking""-until she comes up empty. Then, in a karmic convergence of events, Sharon starts on the path home to Judaism. Still, even as she embraces her tradition, Sharon's irrepressible self tugs at her sleeve. Especially when she meets Mikhail, falls truly in love at last, and discovers what even she could not imagine-her destiny.

By: Allegra Goodman
Imprint: Bantam USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 277g
ISBN: 9780385334181
ISBN 10: 0385334184
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 15 May 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Paradise Park: A Novel

Clear, rain-washed prose ...In Allegra Goodman's ebullient, bittersweet, plaintive Song of Sharon, the heroine's true achievement is finding poetry in.becoming who she's been all along. -The New York Times Book Review [The] narrator, that Sharon Spiegelman, has one of the most enchanting, idiosyncratic voices since Augie March. -The Washington Post Book World With Sharon Spiegelman, Goodman has created a Huck Finn for the modern age, drifting down the river of American spirituality. -The Christian Science Monitor Like Saul Bellow and Philip Roth before her, Goodman has achieved a breakthrough book. -Time