- Published: 3 November 2014
- ISBN: 9780099591696
- Imprint: Windmill Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $27.99
Still Life with Bread Crumbs
- Published: 3 November 2014
- ISBN: 9780099591696
- Imprint: Windmill Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $27.99
Quindlen has made a home at the top of the bestsellers lists with novels that capture the grace and frailty of everyday life, and her latest work is sure to take her there again. 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
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.
Publisher’s Weekly
A Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and star in the pantheon of domestic fiction (Every Last One, 2010), Quindlen presents instantly recognizable characters who may be appealingly warm and nonthreatening, but that only serves to drive home her potent message that it’s never too late to embrace life’s second chances.
Booklist
Profound … engaging
Kirkus
[A] marvelous romantic comedy of manners ... 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 a staying power all its own.
The New York Times Book Review
Focused on a few characters, this is engaging, immaculately constructed storytelling, with a warm message about the chance of happiness later in life
Guardian
A romantic comedy layered with depth, grace and wit… a smart, funny novel filled with surprisingly sparse prose and beautifully-drawn characters
Image magazine