COMMONWEALTH

A powerful story of two families brought together by beauty and torn apart by tragedy, the new novel by the Orange Prize-winning aut hor of Bel Canto and State of Wonder is her most astonishing yetIt is 1964: Bert Cousins, the deputy district attorney, shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited, bottle of gin in hand. As the cops of Los Angeles drink, talk and dance into the June afternoon, he notices a heart-stoppingly beautiful woman. When Bert kisses Beverly Keating, his host's wife, the new baby pressed be tween them...[Llegir més]