Attachment

By Isabel Fonseca

Book Overview

After more than twenty years of life in London, Jean and Mark Hubbard decamp to a remote tropical island in the Indian Ocean. But when Jean, a health columnist, discovers a salacious love letter addressed to her husband, she realizes that she has misdiagnosed some acute pathologies in her own life. The long idyll of their mutual ease is over - and a new quest has just begun. Looking for answers, Jean goes undercover with a surreptitious correspondence that propels her on to alarming and illuminating adventures of her own. Isabel Fonseca explores the impulses that color and disrupt our lives even as they reveal, ever more clearly, the nature of love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307386511
• ISBN13: 9780307386519
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Fun

I have found this book to be a fun and compelling study of modern day marriage. I particularly enjoyed Jean's take on life Would highly recommend!

Open minded reader

This is a terrific book. It is timely but deals with timeless themes. Full of vibrant imagery, good humor and a story well told. Everyone should read it. I particularly enjoyed the descriptions of the different locales. Jean is sharp and funny and I felt like I knew her.

Excellent

This is an excellent novel: sly, sophisticated, funny, contemporary. It evokes a wonderful sense of place, reveals characters and their relationships in all their ambiguity and complexity (and what relationship is not complex and ambiguous?) and begins with the glorious premise: just how far can a misunderstanding unravel a marriage? It's worth reading just for the wise asides. I was confused by some of the other reviews - what mealy-mouthed planet are these readers on? Confound them! I could not put this book down.

fantastic!!

I loved reading Attachment and felt very involved with Jean's decisions and path. This is a very thoughtful and enjoyable novel with much to say about marriage and personal development. Highly recommend reading Attachment!!

loved it

I really loved this book. I started reading it one morning and did not get out of bed (not a habit) until I had finished. I identified with Jean, (I would definitely try anything to connect with my husband's slutty mistress), the locations and the pitfalls of a lengthy marriage. I liked the twists and turns of the plot and was enthralled through the rather unpredictable end. I highly recommend Attachment, its a great read!