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Skipping a Beat

Skipping a Beat

Pekkanen, Sarah

Paperback

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 1451609825
ISBN13: 9781451609820
Publisher: Atria
Published: Feb 22 2011
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.99 Width: 5.31 Depth: 8.26
Language: English
From the author of the acclaimed The Opposite of Me, a poignant, witty novel about marriage, forgiveness, second chances, and the choices that give shape--and limits--to our lives.From the outside, Julia and Michael seem to have it all. Both products of difficult childhoods in rural West Virginia--where they were simply Julie and Mike--they become high school sweethearts and fall in love. Shortly after graduation, they flee their small town to start afresh. Now thirty-somethings, they are living a wealthy Washington, DC, life in their multi-million-dollar home. Julia is a highly sought-after party planner, while Michael has just sold his wildly successful flavored water company for $70 million. But one day, Michael collapses in his office. Four minutes and eight seconds after his cardiac arrest, a portable defibrillator jump-starts his heart. But in those lost minutes he becomes a different man. Money is meaningless to him--and he wants to give it all away. Julia, who sees bits of her life reflected in scenes from the world's great operas, is now faced with a choice she never anticipated. Should she walk away from the man she once adored--who became a stranger to her long before his sudden change of heart--or give in to his pleas for a second chance and the promise of a poorer but happier life? As wry and engaging as her debut, but with quiet depth and newfound maturity, Skipping a Beat is an unforgettable portrait of a marriage whose glamorous surface belies the complications and betrayals beneath.

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