Jeannie Hudson's Blog: Bookmarks - Posts Tagged "success"

I found STILL LIFE WITH BREAD CRUMBS by
Anna Quindlen quite delightful. Rebecca
Winter is at a crossroads. A photographer, she enjoyed great success in her day, mostly from her photo bearing the same name as the novel. But she has enjoyed no recent coups in the photography marketplace, hence her bank balance has been steadily losing ground to all her financial responsibilities. Having divorced her arrogant English husband, she no longer has real ties to Manhattan where she's lived most of her life. She decides to sublet her beloved New York apartment and relocate
to a cottage in the middle of nowhere.
There she deals with various eccentric
new friends, hikes to the best shape she's ever been in, is adopted by a dog,
falls in love with a man with as many
issues as herself, stumbles onto a new
photography project while hiking that
takes New York by storm. During days of
solitude, she gains new perspective on
life and what she wants from it. STILL
LIFE WITH BREAD CRUMBS is heartfelt and
very moving account of a woman falling in
love and discovering a life more engaging
and successful than anything she could've
imagined, though the success isn't remotely the same as what she sought when
she was young. An extraordinary novel by
a masterful storyteller with great insight into people's foibles. I give it
FIVE stars.