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The house on Hope Street
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- ISBN: 9780307566928 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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remote - Publisher: New York : Bantam Dell, [2009], c2000.
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Monthly Selections - #2 March 2000
Steel is one of the few writers whose books appear almost as fast as her readers finish them. This is her forty-ninth novel, and it includes all the elements that her fans expect. Liz and Jack Sutherland have a perfect life that includes a beautiful home in suburban San Francisco, a successful joint family law practice, five wonderful children, and a great marriage. All that changes one Christmas morning when Jack goes back to the office to pick up some papers and the disgruntled husband of a client shoots him dead. In spite of her grief, Liz must remain strong to care for her children--especially her youngest, Jamie, who has a learning disability--and handle the law practice. She becomes both mother and father to her children and even substitutes for her husband in training Jamie for the Special Olympics. The family has just begun to heal when Liz's oldest son suffers a serious injury and is hospitalized. The surgeon pays special attention to Liz, eventually asking her out on a date. Liz realizes that it is time for her to start living again, but she faces opposition from some of her children who believe she is forgetting their father. Standard Steel fare and an excellent beach book, this will definitely please her readers. ((Reviewed March 15, 2000)) Copyright 2000 Booklist Reviews - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2000 June #1
A wife and mother puts the pieces back together after her husband is murdered.Liz and Jack Sutherland are successful divorce lawyers who live in Marin County, California, with their five children. On Christmas morning, the enraged husband of a client shoots Jack dead. In her typical singsong style, Steel (Granny Dan, 1999, etc.) takes Liz and her kids into the unthinkable horror of losing the person they love most in the world and then leads them pretty quickly out. Liz is helped through the following year by her best friend Victoria, her secretary Jean, and her housekeeper Carole. Nonetheless, in true soap-opera fashion, she shoulders most of the burden herself. Although she's grown to dislike dealing with people's nasty divorces, she stoically takes ona double caseload. She helps all her kids-especially her youngest child Jamie, a learning-delayed boy whose brain was damaged at birth-deal with the death of their father. When it comes time for the Special Olympics, an annual occasion for Jamie, Liz takes over Jack's job as trainer, coaching Jamie to his first winning medals ever. After an agonizing nine months of learning to sleep alone, Liz meets Dr. Bill Webster, the trauma doctor who helps her teenaged son Peter recover from a diving accident that left him with a head injury. Though Bill has always avoided long-term commitment, he can't help but be impressed by Liz's grit and her love for her family. Her daughter's resistance to him temporarily scares Bill off, but another Christmas finds him ready to take on carpooling with the manliest of them.This time out, Steel makes an intelligent choice of subject matter-and only occasionally threatens to treacle it to death.. . .Thom, James AlexanderSIGN-TALKER: The Adventure of George Drouillard on the Lewis and Clark ExpeditionBallantine (480 pp.)$25.95Jul. 5, 2000ISBN: 0-345-39003-2Thom retells the Lewis and Clark journey, which he first visited in From Sea to Shining Sea (1984), from the point of view of Drouillard, a half-breed Native American.Adapting the less romantic view of contemporary historians, Thom, again trying to evoke history from a Native American perspective, sees that famed expedition as a harbinger for the subjugation and annihilation of the Indians, who, though threatened by European diseases, weapons and whiskey, would soon find betrayal, slaughter, cultural destruction and slow starvation in the white man's bag of gifts. In Drouillard (his father was French, his mother a Shawnee), Thom has a reluctant, stranger-in-a-strange-land hero.Drouillard is a superb hunter with an almost psychic understanding of living things, as well as an illiterate linguist who can speak English, French, Spanish, and variations on his Shawnee dialect. Unmarried, shunned by whites and unattached to any tribe, Drouillard is at first reluctant to join the expedition, having suspected correctly that William Clark's brother, George Rogers Clark, massacred his tribal relatives. He decides that the money he might make could be of use to his mother, though, and becomes the odd man in among the Corps of Discovery, reacting with mostly silent contempt at the foul odors, hypocrisy, dishonesty, and management blunders of the group's leaders, especially Lewis, whose depressive rages Drouillard senses as an almost demonic possession. In numerous meetings with Indians, Drouillard envisions the seeds of conflicts to come, but also finds much to respect on both sides-until he becomes an unwilling accomplice as the explorers lie, cheat, and steal their way to the Pacific andback.Uneven, heavy with ironic culture clashes, and as slowly paced as the expedition itself. Still, the narrative ripples with a luminous fascination for nature, both human and spiritual, as it rains down so much sorrow and wonder. Copyright 2000 Kirkus Reviews - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2000 January #1
A year in the life of newly widowed Liz, dealing with a special-needs child while warming to a new doctor friend. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2000 May #2
Married legal team Liz and Jack Sutherland have a successful family law practice and a house on Hope Street near San Francisco, where they live with their five happy children (one with special needs). Liz and her children's lives are changed forever when Jack is murdered on Christmas Day. In the year following the murder, Liz struggles to come to terms with the loss of her husband, both personally and professionally, and is dealt another devastating blow when her eldest son has a near-fatal accident. Divorced doctor Bill Webster saves her son and becomes close to Liz, much to the chagrin of her daughters, who accuse her of betraying their dead father. Can Liz move on with her life and be happy again without betraying Jack? The House on Hope Street is the latest short novel by best-selling author Steel and is loaded with the elements her millions of devoted fans expect crisis, romance, breakup, and reconciliation. This is a tearjerker with an unbelievable amount of crisis for a story that takes place over one year, which makes for great escapist reading. Recommended for all public libraries. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 1/00.] Samantha J. Gust, Niagara Univ. Lib., NY Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2000 April #3
Have Kleenex near at hand; the heartstrings are plucked nonstop in this vintage Steel, her 49th (after The Wedding). Liz Sutherland, wife of the dashing Jack (also her partner in a divorce law practice) and mother of five great kids, is the happiest of women until tragedy strikes. On Christmas Eve, the estranged husband of a Sutherland client kills his wife, then Jack, then himself. Steel spares us nothing. She knows the anatomy of grief abhorrence of the unctuous word "arrangements"; the cruel return to consciousness each morning. If the metaphors are clunky (a bowling ball on the heart), so be it; Steel's palpable, contagious sincerity wins readers' empathy. At last Liz laughs again, then, inevitably, loves again. Her new amour is Dr. Bill Webster, and they meet when her oldest child, Peter, is injured in a swimming pool accident. Peter cheers on the new romance, and so does Liz's youngest, the developmentally delayed (and charming) Jamie. Teen daughter Megan and her two younger sisters try to derail the relationship, however, and Megan's sass provides a needed counterpoint to much sunniness. Steel's commitment to her main characters is unimpeachable; minor characters fare less well. Distracted Liz almost runs over a woman who then sends flowers instead of suing a neat start to a relationship that never happens and the murderer's orphaned children fall out of the plot with unsettling abruptness. Still, Steel's devoted readers will swallow the story in one gulp. (June) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
