NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA superb love story from Anna Quindlen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rise and Shine, Blessings, and A Short Guide to a Happy LifeStill Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.Brilliantly written, powerfully observed, Still Life with Bread Crumbs is a deeply moving and often very funny story of unexpected love, and a stunningly crafted journey into the life of a woman, her heart, her mind, her days, as she discovers that life is a story with many levels, a story that is longer and more exciting than she ever imagined.Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.“There comes a moment in every novelist’s career when she. Ventures into new territory, breaking free into a marriage of tone and style, of plot and characterization, that’s utterly her own.
Anna Quindlen’s marvelous romantic comedy of manners is just such a book. Taken as a whole, Quindlen’s writings represent a generous and moving interrogation of women’s experience across the lines of class and race. Still Life with Bread Crumbs proves all the more moving because of its light, sophisticated humor. Quindlen’s least overtly political novel, it packs perhaps the most serious punch.
Quindlen has delivered a novel that will have staying power all its own.” — The New York Times Book Review“A wise tale about second chances, starting over, and going after what is most important in life.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune“Quindlen’s astute observations. Are the sorts of details every writer and reader lives for.” —Chicago Tribune“Anna Quindlen’s seventh novel offers the literary equivalent of comfort food. She still has her finger firmly planted on the pulse of her generation.” —NPR“Enchanting.
STILL LIFE WITH BREAD CRUMBS begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Feb 09, 2014 The most famous image in the series, “Still Life With Bread Crumbs,” featured “a vaguely Flemish composition of dirty wineglasses, stacked plates, the torn ends of two baguettes, and a dish towel singed at one corner by the gas stove.” Reproduced on postcards, T-shirts and posters, it brought Rebecca unexpected fame.
The protagonist’s photographs are celebrated for turning the ‘minutiae of women’s lives into unforgettable images,’ and Quindlen does the same here with her enveloping, sure-handed storytelling.” — People“Charming. A hot cup of tea of a story, smooth and comforting about the vulnerabilities of growing older.
Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere.
There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.Brilliantly written, powerfully observed, Still Life with Bread Crumbs is a deeply moving and often very funny story of unexpected love, and a stunningly crafted journey into the life of a woman, her heart, her mind, her days, as she discovers that life is a story with many levels, a story that is longer and more exciting than she ever imagined. Media Reviews'Quindlen has always excelled at capturing telling details in a story, and she does so again in this quiet, powerful novel, showing the charged emotions that teem beneath the surface of daily life.'
- Publishers Weekly'Occasionally profound, always engaging, but marred by a formulaic resolution in which rewards and punishments are meted out according to who ranks highest on the niceness scale.' - Kirkus'With spare, elegant prose, she crafts a poignant glimpse into the inner life of an aging woman who discovers that reality contains much more color than her own celebrated black-and-white images.' - Library Journal. The information about Still Life with Bread Crumbs shown above was first featuredin 'The BookBrowse Review' - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks.In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication.If you are the publisher or author of this book and feelthat the reviews shown do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available,please with the mainstream media reviews that you would like to see added. A good relaxing readAnna Quindlen has written this novel with wit and humor-I particularly enjoyed the chapter titles-and has created a character I really like, especially given that she is my age and still active and attractive to a younger man. Rebecca still has some of those pesky confidence issues, but I guess age doesn't clear up everything, which is good because it keeps her and the rest of us striving and learning and changing. This book may not qualify as one of the great American novels, but it is worth the time and would lend itself to lively discussions with the book clubs.
Anna Quindlen's novels include Rise and Shine, Blessings, Black and Blue, One TrueThing, and Object Lessons, and her nonfiction books include A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Good Dog. Stay., Being Perfect, Loud & Clear, Living Out Loud, Thinking Out Loud, and How Reading Changed My Life. She has also written the children's books TheTree That Came to Stay and Happily Ever After. Her New York Timescolumn 'Public and Private' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. From 2000-2009, she wrote the 'Last Word' column for Newsweek. She lives with her husband and children in New York City.
