Leaving the World: A Novel
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On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents: she would never get married, and she would never have children.
But life, as Jane comes to learn, is a very much random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in like with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo. And then Jane becomes pregnant. Motherhood turns out to be a fantastic welcome surprise—but when a devastating turn of events tears her being apart she has no choice but to flee all she knows and place the world.
Just when she has renounced life itself, the disappearance of a young girl pulls her back from the edge and into an obsessive search for some sort of personal redemption. Convinced that she knows more about the case than the police do, she is forced to make a choice—stay hidden or bring to light a shattering truth.
Leaving the World is a riveting portrait of a brilliant woman that reflects the way we live now, of the many routes we follow in the course of a single life, and of the arbitrary scenery of destiny. A critically acclaimed international bestseller, it is also a compulsive read and one that speaks volumes about the dilemmas we face in trying to navigate our way through all that fate throws in our path.
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Jane Howard celebrates her thirteenth birthday with her family tree when she makes a cryptic comment that no one is pleased. The next morning her dad quoting her profound statement on happiness leaves.
Jane internalizes what happened, blaming herself. She locks away her feelings and turns to the literary world for sustenance. At Harvard she has an affair with her married thesis adviser, who dies in an manufacturing accident; which affirms her belief people place. Jane makes a chance in the finance world, but turns to teaching at a minor Boston university. She falls in like with film archivist Theo and they have a child, but he steals her money while running off with his new partner. Once again Jane learns men place. But, she finds a new interest a child-murder investigation in Calgary.
A lot happened to Jane but she courageously is long-suffering that sh*t happens as That’s Life (Sinatra), but what makes her an admirable heroine is that “Each time I find myself flat on my face I pick myself up and get back in the race”; she never quits. Readers will root for Jane who tells her entertaining tale in which “Some people get their kicks stompin’ on a dream But I don’t let it, let it get me down.” That’s Life.
Harriet Klausner
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I was introduced to Douglas Kennedy when i read the back of a acquaintances copy of a “A Special Relationship”. A must read for anyone who understands how with simple yet incredible accuracy a Man? can reflect, feel and write so much like a Woman!. I did not even have to end my sample copy of “Leaving the World” before downloading it onto my kindle to know it would be fantastic.I have been waiting for a new novel from Douglas Kennedy forever and was surprised my initial search for the kindle version of his additional books did not give me the accurate “Kennedy”.
I must be the melancholic type to identify with the recurring sad theme and tragic lives of his characters (yet the women come out strong despite all the seeming catastrophe). I figure this is a writer who identifies and likes women which is a bonus and not even a neccessity for me to appreciate a writer) because his books place me feeling so excellent. He simply just gets it. All the way here (miles and miles from America & Canada) and his storyline resonates so soundly with life here and elsewhere. “Leaving the world” is so touching,so excellent i keep reading yet wishing i would never get to the last page.
I loved the ending though it was a small wierd but believable. He just has a way of showing how unfair life can be yet forcing us to live it out warts and all. I establish this book therapeutic and maybe because i am not such a literary honcho, i was not looking for errors in writing style and all that. It was written for ordinary readers like me and the “readers who supposedly know their stuff” and its us ordinary readers who won’t stop buying Douglas Kennedy books!
Please dont stop writing and dont change the theme.
Thank you Amazon for saving me the anguish of waiting for the hard/soft copy to reach me now that there is KINDLE!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I painstakingly loved this book until middle through, when it seemed like the heroine was going from one crazy thing to the next – all of which highly improbable, very unlucky or both in real life. Everytime though she comes out jumping to the next chapter in her life leaving everything behind but permanently with money, how is that supposed to be credible? I establish this book disappointing, too unrealistic.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
What a well written book! Impossible to place down ! Please, write another one soon!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
To his many fans, Douglas Kennedy delivers yet another masterfully natural fiber tale. And yet I was left feeling a bit disappointed, as if this one didn’t reasonably live up to the standard set by earlier books like State of the Union and The Huge Picture.His trademark seems to be being able to get inside the heads of his female protagonists in a manner which few female writers, let alone additional males, come close to emulating; in this he again delivers in spades.What failed for me in this tale is the development in the sequential narrative of what befalls his heroine. I was left feeling that the implausibility outweighed my involvement and investment in the fictional world that Jane Howard Inhabits.
As a harvard literary, Jane is a predictable bluestocking with a backstory of treachery and emotional disappointment, not least in her parents, whose broke relationship she has vowed not to reprise, forswearing marriage and children for herself and finding her only exitential meaning in academia. Kennedy takes time to renovate jasne’s character and at times she is not an especially sympathetic character – I establish myself struggling to like her at first and by book’s end, although one is more involved in her tale and keen to see the denouement, I hadn’t momentously warmed to her as a person.
For most of her life Jane has been a passive observer of life but suddenly, her moment of crisis arrives and she deals with it by leaving the world. She abandons everything and everyone she knows and seeks a kind of nothingness in travel and a new life in a distant town. Through a series of increasingly improbable adventures, Jane finally learns to take control of her own life and destiny and to break the cycle of passivity and depression that has hitherto characterized her being. Whether the final outcome for jane is likely, a wise choice or just fantastic writing, the individual reader will have to choose. I establish this a excellent read, looking back, but there were times when I felt decidedly irritated with Ms. Howard, and even a bit disappointed with Mr.Kennedy. Still, I’m glad I read it and whether you are lukewarm or ecstatic about Douglas Kennedy’s books, they are never dull and permanently repay whatever effort is required. This one is no exception.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5