The Pull of the Moon

Name: The Pull of the Moon
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Author: Elizabeth Berg
ISBN: 9781440723919

Author: Elizabeth Berg

Narrator: Barbara Caruso

Unabridged: 4 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC

Published: 11/20/1997

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Best-selling author Elizabeth Berg has published fiction and nonfiction in The New York Times Magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal, and New Woman. She has been nominated for a National Magazine Award for her graceful, witty writing. In The Pull of the Moon, she alternates letters and journal entries to trace a middle-aged woman’s impulsive, and solitary, drive across country. Can the middle age years still hold as much promise as the full moon of youth? Nan has no answer to that question, but she knows that the moon of her life is on the wane. As she drives away from home, turning the wheel toward an uncertain future, Nan begins to contemplate her relationships with her husband and her daughter. Slowly, over nights spent in highway motels, and meals eaten in booth-lined diners, she regains a focus in her life that she had given up for lost. Funny, poignant, and often dazzling, Elizabeth Berg’s novel will instantly appeal to women of all ages. From the moments spent studying the time lines of her body to Nan’s re-examination of what keeps her in her marriage, each word resonates with gentle honesty and growing strength.

About Elizabeth Berg

Elizabeth Berg is the New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including The Year of Pleasures, The Art of Mending, Say When, True to Form, Never Change, and Open House, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection in 2000. Durable Goods and Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year, and Talk Before Sleep was short-listed for the ABBY award in 1996. The winner of the 1997 New England Booksellers Award for her body of work, Berg is also the author of a nonfiction work, Escaping Into the Open: The Art of Writing True. She lives in Chicago.

Reviews

Goodreads review by midnightfaerie on February 26, 2021

My aunt is a renowned doctor living in Memphis. She was one of the first women breast surgeons and her and her husband founded the Mroz-Baier clinic for breast cancer in Memphis. They are innovators and have made great strides towards the cure of breast cancer. I have a box full of newspaper clippin......more

Goodreads review by Kathie on October 31, 2016

So I'm going to tell you a story with this review. I originally read this book when it was published, back in 1996. I was 36 years old and in a very unhappy marriage. I'd read Berg's previous books and wanted to go see her when she came through town on book tour. My then-husband gave me permission (p......more

Goodreads review by Marie on July 06, 2008

I absolutely loved this book. It is a book about a woman who is 50 and takes a road trip by herself. She writes letters home to her husband and keeps a journal. Berg says a lot of things that most women just think about. I would recommend this book to women in their 50's and to younger just married......more

Goodreads review by Amy on August 09, 2022

I had read Year of Pleasures a few years ago and enjoyed it very much, but for some reason didn’t read anything else by Berg until now. Pull of the Moon made me wonder why. I remembered as I read this latest book that her novels are the sort I gulp down, written with beautifully crafted thoughts in......more

Goodreads review by Susan on June 02, 2013

I took this trip myself. I graduated from Law School at 42, and passed the bar in California, then had to take it in Virginia when my husband took a new job. Upon arriving in Virginia I found that my daughter needed more than a part time parent, and my husband's new job had him on the road constantl......more