Happens Every Day Isabel Gillies | ISBN : 1-4104-1778-6

Happens Every Day

Author: Isabel Gillies

Publisher: Thorndike Press

Publication Date: 05 August, 2009

ISBN: 9781410417787

Pages: 339

Subjects: Biographies

Available as: Trade Cloth, 978-1-4104-1778-7 Trade Cloth, 978-1-4391-1007-2 Trade Paper, 978-1-4391-2662-2 E-Book - Epublication content package, 978-1-4391-4857-0

Description:

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.

PW Publishers Weekly

Review Source: Publishers Weekly

Review Date: 2009-06-29

Gillies left her recurring role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit to follow her poet-professor husband to Oberlin, Ohio, when he got a tenure-track position in the English department. She threw herself into caring for her two sons, renovating an old house and teaching drama part-time--but her idyllic life was shattered when her husband decided he didn't want to be married anymore--or at least, not married to Gillies. (He subsequently wed a fellow professor.) Gillies brings both humor and sorrow to the narration. Despite a tendency to trail off at the end of sentences, which leaves listeners straining to hear the completion of a thought, she gives a brave performance that will have her audience cheering as she pluckily reassembles the pieces of her broken life. A Scribner hardcover (Reviews, Mar. 23). (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved