Coming out / Danielle Steel.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780739326497
- ISBN: 073932649X
- Physical Description: 240 p. (large print) ; 22 cm. : ill.
- Edition: 1st large print ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, 2006.
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Subject: | Debutante balls > Fiction. Debutantes > Fiction. Socialites > Fiction. Conflict of generations > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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- 5 of 6 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Valemount Public Library.
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- Baker & Taylor
A successful wife and mother, Olympia Crawford Rubinstein finds her life unraveling when her twin daughters, who are just finishing high school, are invited to attend New York's most exclusive coming-out ball, an event that brings chaos, new choices, calamity, and transformation into her world. (General Fiction) - Baker & Taylor
Olympia Crawford Rubinstein finds her life unraveling when her twin daughters, who are just finishing high school, are invited to attend New York's most exclusive coming-out ball, an event that brings chaos and new choices into her world. - Random House, Inc.
Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has a busy legal career, a solid marriage, and a way of managing her thriving family with grace, humor, and boundless energy. With twin daughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartner from her second marriage, there seems to be no challenge to which Olympia cannot rise. Until one sunny day in May, when she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most exclusive coming-out ball in New Yorkâand chaos erupts all around her. One twinâs excitement is balanced by the otherâs outrage; her previous husbandâs profound snobbism is in sharp contrast to her current husbandâs flat refusal to attend.
For Olympiaâs husband, Harry, whose parents survived the Holocaust, the idea of a blue-blood debutante ball is abhorrent. Her daughter Veronica, a natural-born rebel, agreesâ while Veronicaâs identical twin, Virginia, is already shopping for the perfect dress. Then thereâs Olympiaâs ex, an insufferable snob, who sees the ball as the perfect opportunity for a family feud. And amid all the hubbub, Olympiaâs college-age son, Charlie, is facing a turning point in his lifeâand may need his mother more than ever. But despite it all, Olympia is determined to steer her family through the event until, just days before the cotillion, things begin to unravel with alarming speed.
From a sonâs crisis to a daughterâs heartbreak, from a case of the chicken pox to a political debate raging in her household, Olympia is on the verge of surrender. And that is when, in a series of startling choices and changes of heart, family, friends, and even a blue-haired teenager all find a way to turn a night of calamity into an evening of magic. As old wounds are healed, barriers are shattered and new traditions are born, and a debutante ball becomes a catalyst for change, revelation, acceptance, and love.
In a novel that is by turns profound, poignant, moving, and warmly funny, Danielle Steel tells the story of an extraordinary familyâfinding new ways of letting go, stepping up, and coming out...in the ways that matter most.