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The Third Child: A Novel

By Marge Piercy

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
9780060936037, 9780061557293, 9780066211169, 0060936037, 0066211166
LCC
PS3566.I4 T47 2003
Open Library ID
OL22574341M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1931362 bytes)
Pages
352\356
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Under her mother's constant scrutiny and lost in the shadow of her famous senator father, Melissa is the third child in the politically prominent Dickenson family, where ambition comes first and Melissa often comes last. In college, she meets Blake, a man of mixed race and apparently unknown parentage. His adoptive parents are lawyers whose defense of death-row cases in the past brought them head-to-head with Melissa's father when he was the governor of Pennsylvania. While Melissa and Blake's attraction is immediate and fiery, a dangerous secret lurks beneath their relationship -- one that could destroy them ... and their families. Provocative and beautifully written, and dealing with themes of love, honesty, identity, and the consequences of ambition, The Third Child is a remarkable page-turner.

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