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Highlights
- Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life--a handsome, intelligent, loving husband who was a professor; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house in their Midwestern college town; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism.
- Author(s): Isabel Gillies
- 272 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts
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About the Book
Gillies pens a fast-paced, intriguing memoir in which she is forced to come to terms with the swift destruction of her picture-perfect life after her husband leaves her for another woman--something her rival reminds her, happens every day.Book Synopsis
Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life--a handsome, intelligent, loving husband who was a professor; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house in their Midwestern college town; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly, the life Isabel had made crumbled. Her husband, Josiah, announced that he was leaving her and their two young sons. "Happens every day," said a friend. Far from a self-pitying diatribe, Happens Every Day reads like an intimate conversation between friends. It is a dizzyingly candid, compulsively readable, ultimately redemptive story about love, marriage, family, heartbreak, and the unexpected turns of a life. On the one hand, reading this book is like watching a train wreck. On the other hand, as Gillies herself says, it is about trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness, and loving your life even if it has slipped away.Review Quotes
"Fans of Eat, Pray, Love will devour this book."
-- John Searles, MSNBC.com
"You gobble up [Happens Every Day], rooting for the engaging Gillies... A guilty pleasure for readers."
-- USA Today
"A memoir so raw you feel like it's your best friend telling you her story."
-- Glamour, "Must-Read"
"A smart, rueful memoir of love, betrayal and survival."
-- O, the Oprah magazine
"I couldn't help but admire her bravery in exposing the dark side of her seemingly perfect life in such a good-humored, self-effacing way.... You feel nothing but deepest sympathy."
-- Elle
Dimensions (Overall): 8.3 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: .5 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 272
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Format: Paperback
Author: Isabel Gillies
Language: English
Street Date: March 2, 2010
TCIN: 85144894
UPC: 9781439126622
Item Number (DPCI): 247-58-2928
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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