The Education of Mrs. Bemis

by John Sedgwick

Book Overview

Powerful, elegant, moving, and suspenseful -- the drama of an aged Boston matriarch's unlikely bond with her young caregiver and the buried secrets that haunt her Meet Madeline Bemis, dowager of one... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060195657
• ISBN13: 9780060195656
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A very satisfying read

A haunting book, especially parts that are set back in time, when Madeline (Mrs.) Bemis was young during WW II. Gives a wonderful sense of how constraining it must have been in that era, especially for a girl coming from a "good" family. I also like the contemporary relationship between Mrs. Bemis and her therapist, forty years (more?) younger, who's got problems of her own.