Is there any mystery greater than those we love the most?
In this remarkable collaboration, New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice and Joseph Monninger combine their unique talents to create a powerfully moving novel of an estranged husband and wife through a series of searching, intimate letters. By way of a correspondence so achingly real you'll forget it's fiction, they trace the history of a love affair and of a family before, and after, the moment that changed the course of two people's journey forever.
Sam and Hadley West are both trying in their own ways to survive after the unthinkable loss of their only son in Alaska. For Sam, a sports journalist, acceptance means an arduous trek by dogsled across the bleak and beautiful arctic wilderness to find the place where Paul died. For Hadley, it means renting a benignly haunted, salt-soaked cottage off the Maine coast where she begins to paint again.
Now, at opposite ends of the country, waiting for their divorce to be finalized, they begin to exchange letters by post, missives filled with longing and truths they've never before voiced, as they recall their marriage - its magic moments and its challenges - and begin to rediscover the reasons they fell in love in the first place.
As Sam risks his life to reach the remote crash site, Hadley begins an equally hazardous inner journey to a rendezvous with the mad grief of a mother's heart. At the place where all else is lost, they will meet again..
Genre: Romance
In this remarkable collaboration, New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice and Joseph Monninger combine their unique talents to create a powerfully moving novel of an estranged husband and wife through a series of searching, intimate letters. By way of a correspondence so achingly real you'll forget it's fiction, they trace the history of a love affair and of a family before, and after, the moment that changed the course of two people's journey forever.
Sam and Hadley West are both trying in their own ways to survive after the unthinkable loss of their only son in Alaska. For Sam, a sports journalist, acceptance means an arduous trek by dogsled across the bleak and beautiful arctic wilderness to find the place where Paul died. For Hadley, it means renting a benignly haunted, salt-soaked cottage off the Maine coast where she begins to paint again.
Now, at opposite ends of the country, waiting for their divorce to be finalized, they begin to exchange letters by post, missives filled with longing and truths they've never before voiced, as they recall their marriage - its magic moments and its challenges - and begin to rediscover the reasons they fell in love in the first place.
As Sam risks his life to reach the remote crash site, Hadley begins an equally hazardous inner journey to a rendezvous with the mad grief of a mother's heart. At the place where all else is lost, they will meet again..
Genre: Romance
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Hardback Editions
2009 : Hardback
| Title: The Letters (LARGE PRINT) Author(s): Luanne Rice; Joseph Monninger Publisher: Bantam Availability: Amazon More details... |
November 2008 : Hardback
| Title: The Letters (Wheeler Hardcover) Author(s): Luanne Rice, Joseph Monninger ISBN: 1-59722-860-5 / 9781597228602 (USA edition) Publisher: Wheeler Publishing Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 2008 : Hardback
| Title: The Letters Author(s): Luanne Rice, Joseph Monninger ISBN: 0-553-80741-2 / 978-0-553-80741-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Bantam Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2008 : Hardback
| Title: The Letters Author(s): Luanne and Joseph Monninger Rice Publisher: Bantam Books Availability: Amazon More details... |
Paperback Editions
August 2012 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: The Letters: A Novel Author(s): Luanne Rice, Joseph Monninger ISBN: 0-553-59291-2 / 978-0-553-59291-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Bantam Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Audio Editions
2008 : Audio Cassette
| Title: The Letters Author(s): Luanne Rice, Joseph Monninger ISBN: 1-4159-5959-5 / 978-1-4159-5959-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House, Inc. Availability: Amazon More details... |
Other Editions
September 2008 : Kindle edition
| Title: The Letters: A Novel Author(s): Luanne Rice, Joseph Monninger Publisher: Bantam Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
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