Life #6
Diana Wagman
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Critically acclaimed author Diana Wagman brings us the suspenseful and emotionally exhilarating story of a woman facing death today, as well as thirty years ago. Fiona's marriage is crumbling, and she has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. Caught up in a wave of memories as she faces her own mortality, Fiona recalls the previous times in her life when she nearly died, including a fateful boat trip with her former boyfriend, Luc. Fleeing her struggling marriage, Fiona rendezvous with Luc. In the process, she relives the harrowing boat trip from three decades earlier, which permanently altered her life. Now that Fiona desperately needs Luc to save her, will he be the man she remembers? Or will she discover heartbreak again? An adventurous and stirring tale inspired by Diana Wagman's own experience at sea, Life #6 explores the hope and folly of youth, how we react when we're pushed to the brink, the regrets of love lost, and the many ways we die and are renewed throughout our lives.
Product Details
Price
$16.95
$15.76
Publisher
Ig Publishing
Publish Date
May 12, 2015
Pages
296
Dimensions
5.5 X 0.8 X 8.1 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781632460035
BISAC Categories:
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About the Author
Diana Wagman is the author of four novels and numerous short stories, essays, and reviews. Her second novel, Spontaneous, won the PEN West Award for Fiction. Her most recent novel, The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and was reviewed by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal, among many others. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
Reviews
"A fierce and necessary story of love in the face of obsession, and living when there's one last chance. With language of crystalline beauty, Diana Wagman charts a course of life and death--of body, and of soul--in a novel of riveting suspense and mesmerizing love."--Dylan Landis, author of Rainey Royal and Normal People Don't Live Like This
"Can a novel be fueled by obsession, rife with suspense, and yet also elegiac and transformative? In Life #6, Diana Wagman presents a single ordinary life as the extraordinary adventure it is and survival as the constant miracle it must be. This is life, pure and simple and endlessly transfixing, and Wagman has captured it on the page."--Adrianne Harun, author of A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain
"Life #6 intrigued and delighted me from the first paragraph, and for two days I read it everywhere: at meals, in the bath, in line, while driving, you name it. I loved the wit and despair of its heroine, and the way the past--with all its attendant desires and trauma--wouldn't let her go. I love this book!"--Edan Lepucki, author of California
-A fierce and necessary story of love in the face of obsession, and living when there's one last chance. With language of crystalline beauty, Diana Wagman charts a course of life and death--of body, and of soul--in a novel of riveting suspense and mesmerizing love.---Dylan Landis, author of Rainey Royal and Normal People Don't Live Like This
-Can a novel be fueled by obsession, rife with suspense, and yet also elegiac and transformative? In Life #6, Diana Wagman presents a single ordinary life as the extraordinary adventure it is and survival as the constant miracle it must be. This is life, pure and simple and endlessly transfixing, and Wagman has captured it on the page.---Adrianne Harun, author of A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain
-Life #6 intrigued and delighted me from the first paragraph, and for two days I read it everywhere: at meals, in the bath, in line, while driving, you name it. I loved the wit and despair of its heroine, and the way the past--with all its attendant desires and trauma--wouldn't let her go. I love this book!---Edan Lepucki, author of California
"A fierce and necessary story of love in the face of obsession, and living when there's one last chance. With language of crystalline beauty, Diana Wagman charts a course of life and death--of body, and of soul--in a novel of riveting suspense and mesmerizing love."--Dylan Landis, author of Rainey Royal and Normal People Don't Live Like This "Can a novel be fueled by obsession, rife with suspense, and yet also elegiac and transformative? In Life #6, Diana Wagman presents a single ordinary life as the extraordinary adventure it is and survival as the constant miracle it must be. This is life, pure and simple and endlessly transfixing, and Wagman has captured it on the page."--Adrianne Harun, author of A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain "Life #6 intrigued and delighted me from the first paragraph, and for two days I read it everywhere: at meals, in the bath, in line, while driving, you name it. I loved the wit and despair of its heroine, and the way the past--with all its attendant desires and trauma--wouldn't let her go. I love this book!"--Edan Lepucki, author of California
