Siracusa (Thorndike Press Large Print Core) - Hardcover

The word unputdownable is somewhat overused when describing a good book but really, I just could not put this book down.Delia Ephron s "Siracusa" is a dark tale with incredibly well-drawn characters.It reveals the slights and secrets that can bring about chaos among friends and within families, and adds more than a spoonful of evil into the bargain.I stayed up well past my bedtime to finish.
Jacqueline Winspear, author of the"Maisie Dobbs "novels
Delia Ephron s "Siracusa "is a stunning portrait of two marriages coming unraveled during the stress of travel abroad. Insightful and engaging. A must-read!
Sue Grafton, author of "X "
"Siracusa "is an Italian aria, a Greek tragedy and a modern American masterpiece written by Delia Ephron at the height of her powers. This is a story of two complicated marriages, one vulnerable child, and a trip to Italy that changes each of their lives forever. Secrets, lies, love raging, love dying, and the shame of unrealized potential are exposed in detail under the Sicilian sun. And, like the Moro blood oranges that grow there with abandon, the taste is both sour and sweet at once, but the bitterness that remains is not only haunting but unforgettable.
Adriana Trigiani, author of "The Shoemaker s Wife "
"Siracusa "is an unusually crackling, tricky journey into the distant land of other people s marriages: their secrets, paradoxes, weaknesses, and pleasures. Delia Ephron writes like a warm-blooded Patricia Highsmith, her story s treachery matched by a deep and easy feel for the various human, imperfect ways that people find themselves bound together, and sometimes painstakingly unbind themselves. An absorbing, tense, and original novel.
Meg Wolitzer, author of "The Interestings "
"Siracusa "is dazzling. Here is Delia Ephron with a stunning noir tale of marriage and morality, as two couples tangled in secret longings and betrayals travel through Italy, along with a gimlet-eyed ten-year-old daughter who could have been created by Henry James. Beware. You will be up all night to finish. I was.
Marie Brenner, author of "Apples and Oranges""

A seductive and edgy dissection of two imploding marriages and an unhinged mother-daughter alliance . . . Each of these toxic relationships puts the characters on course to careen headlong into a dark place of deceit and rage in Ephron s brilliant takedown of marital and familial pretense.
"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
A master of precise and keen character development, a virtuoso of pacing and surprise, a wizard at skewering convention and expectation, Ephron offers a bewitching take on relationships marital, parental, casual, and serious in this read-in-one-sitting, escapist escapade with a message.
"Booklist"
[A] suspenseful, thoroughly delicious tale. You can almost taste the gelato.
"People Magazine"
The word unputdownable is somewhat overused when describing a good book but really, I just could not put this book down.Delia Ephron s "Siracusa" is a dark tale with incredibly well-drawn characters.It reveals the slights and secrets that can bring about chaos among friends and within families, and adds more than a spoonful of evil into the bargain.I stayed up well past my bedtime to finish.
Jacqueline Winspear, author of the"Maisie Dobbs "novels
Delia Ephron s "Siracusa "is a stunning portrait of two marriages coming unraveled during the stress of travel abroad. Insightful and engaging. A must-read!
Sue Grafton, author of "X "
"Siracusa "is an Italian aria, a Greek tragedy and a modern American masterpiece written by Delia Ephron at the height of her powers. This is a story of two complicated marriages, one vulnerable child, and a trip to Italy that changes each of their lives forever. Secrets, lies, love raging, love dying, and the shame of unrealized potential are exposed in detail under the Sicilian sun. And, like the Moro blood oranges that grow there with abandon, the taste is both sour and sweet at once, but the bitterness that remains is not only haunting but unforgettable.
Adriana Trigiani, author of "The Shoemaker s Wife "
"Siracusa "is an unusually crackling, tricky journey into the distant land of other people s marriages: their secrets, paradoxes, weaknesses, and pleasures. Delia Ephron writes like a warm-blooded Patricia Highsmith, her story s treachery matched by a deep and easy feel for the various human, imperfect ways that people find themselves bound together, and sometimes painstakingly unbind themselves. An absorbing, tense, and original novel.
Meg Wolitzer, author of "The Interestings "
"Siracusa "is dazzling. Here is Delia Ephron with a stunning noir tale of marriage and morality, as two couples tangled in secret longings and betrayals travel through Italy, along with a gimlet-eyed ten-year-old daughter who could have been created by Henry James. Beware. You will be up all night to finish. I was.
Marie Brenner, author of "Apples and Oranges""

An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from bestselling author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from one another are exposed and relationships are unraveled.
New Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, and Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy with their friends from Maine Finn; his wife, Taylor; and their daughter, Snow. From the beginning, says Taylor, it was a conspiracy for Lizzie and Finn to be together. Told "Rashomon"-style in alternating points of view, the characters expose and stumble upon lies and infidelities past and present. Snow, ten years old and precociously drawn into a far more adult drama, becomes the catalyst for catastrophe as the novel explores collusion and betrayal in marriage.
With her inimitable psychological astuteness and uncanny understanding of the human heart, Ephron delivers a powerful meditation on marriage, friendship, and the meaning of travel. Set on the sun-drenched coast of the Ionian Sea, "Siracusa "unfolds with the pacing of a psychological thriller and delivers an unexpected final act that none will see coming."