Helpless : a novel / Barbara Gowdy.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781443402491 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1443402494 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : HarperCollins Canada, 2011.
Content descriptions
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from EPUB title page (OverDrive viewed, October 4, 2013). |
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Subject: | Missing children > Fiction. Kidnapping > Fiction. |
Genre: | Electronic books. |
Electronic resources
- HARPERCOLL
Celia is the single mother of an exceptionally beautiful child: nine-year-old Rachel. All too aware of the precarious balance of the life she has built for the two of them, Celia worries about her daughterâs longing for the father she has never met. When Rachel disappears one night during a blackout, Celia is stricken with guilt and terror. But her desperation is only half the story as Ron, the man who has taken Rachel, struggles with feelings that are at once tender, misguided and chillingly fixated.
A suspenseful and haunting novel of obsessive love, Helpless once again showcases Barbara Gowdyâs incredible talent for bringing the reader face to face with the provocative and discomforting. At the height of the storyâs tension, she leads us with a steady hand into territory that is unexpected but ultimately as transcendent as the passing of a storm.