Still Life with Bread Crumbs: A Novel - Ebook written by Anna Quindlen. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Still Life with Bread Crumbs: A Novel.

Author Anna Quindlen's seventh novel, Still Life with Bread Crumbs, is an insightful tale of a photographer who flees city life to live in a rustic cottage to save her bank account, and she ends up with a new outlook on life. At 60, Rebecca Winter realizes that her career is more or less dead when she receives an award for her oeuvre. When she relocates to the country, she Author Anna Quindlen's seventh novel, Still Life with Bread Crumbs, is an insightful tale of a photographer who flees city life to live in a rustic cottage to save her bank account, and she ends up with a new outlook on life.

At 60, Rebecca Winter realizes that her career is more or less dead when she receives an award for her oeuvre. When she relocates to the country, she finds new inspiration for her work, a new way of looking at life, and even love. Check out this detailed review of Still Life with Bread Crumbs for a complete look at the book, including the author's writing style, the best and worst aspects of the novel, and more.The heartwarming story told in Still Life with Bread Crumbs explores powerful ideas about life, and it is rife with symbolism. This expert review includes a look at both reader opinions and critical reception. Quindlen's novel is generally well received and praised for its uplifting message, though some mark the book's predictability. The depiction of the protagonist, a 60-year-old woman, not as aging or in decline but as a vibrant, energetic woman, is both eye-opening and refreshing. The novel feels believable, and the author clearly pays attention to all her characters, giving them depth and dimension.

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Overall, Still Life with Bread Crumbs proves an enjoyable read for fans of Quindlen's past works, as well as anyone looking for an inspiring read. Beautiful writing, thoughtful novel of a almost overdone topic.The main character, Rebecca Winter, is a 60 year old, professional divorcee who goes off for a period of solitude to a cabin in the country.

Sounds like 30 other books on the same type of situation.But the way Quindlen handles the topic is different. Rather than a broken, restrung together woman, Rebecca is more of a thoughtful, really together person who knows who she is, goes with the flow and is not really seeking anything other Beautiful writing, thoughtful novel of a almost overdone topic.The main character, Rebecca Winter, is a 60 year old, professional divorcee who goes off for a period of solitude to a cabin in the country.

Sounds like 30 other books on the same type of situation.But the way Quindlen handles the topic is different. Rather than a broken, restrung together woman, Rebecca is more of a thoughtful, really together person who knows who she is, goes with the flow and is not really seeking anything other than some financial relief. She opens her world by retreating from the city, but it never seems to be with a goal of finding herself. She never lost herself. Its more of a journey on the continuum of her life.I thoroughly and thoughtfully enjoyed this book and the writing.There is a most delectable sentence in the book that I think should replace the notion of monkey mind, talked about in meditation. 'There had been bees in her brain, a whole hive, no honey.' For me, this was a spot on description of filling ones head with thoughts-all kinds of thoughts-all swarming around and producing nothing but an annoying buzz.

The book was worth reading just to find that one sentence. This was an enjoyable, if somewhat predictable, read.There are many good insights into what went wrong with her marriage to an angry self-centered, misogynistic man and their life in NYC.Reflecting on growing older: ' Gravity was more charitable to the flat-chested.

' Amen, sister!' People froze you in place, Rebecca sometimes thought, trudging through the woods. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest'. So you had a choice, you could continue a This was an enjoyable, if somewhat predictable, read.There are many good insights into what went wrong with her marriage to an angry self-centered, misogynistic man and their life in NYC.Reflecting on growing older: ' Gravity was more charitable to the flat-chested. ' Amen, sister!' People froze you in place, Rebecca sometimes thought, trudging through the woods.

More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest'. So you had a choice, you could continue a masquerade, or you could give up on it.' 'Its a funny thing, hope. Its not like love, or fear, or hate. Its a feeling you don't really know you have until its gone. I am giving Anna Quindlen one more chance. I used to love what she wrote.

I think I first became a fan of hers when she was writing for Time magazine. I have read a few of her previous books but became disillusioned after a few of them.

I have started this but it looks very girlie girl, contrived and predictable. I hope I am surprised.OK So it is pretty much chick lit and it is pretty predictable but I have been sitting and reading off and on for two days which I rarely do. It is well written I am giving Anna Quindlen one more chance. I used to love what she wrote. I think I first became a fan of hers when she was writing for Time magazine. I have read a few of her previous books but became disillusioned after a few of them.

I have started this but it looks very girlie girl, contrived and predictable. I hope I am surprised.OK So it is pretty much chick lit and it is pretty predictable but I have been sitting and reading off and on for two days which I rarely do. It is well written and I just had to know how it all turned out, what happened to the characters.I will read her next fiction. At 60, Anna Quindlens complicated protagonist, Rebecca Winter, is strong of body and mind, but much less so of heart and bank account. A well-known photographer who changes her lifestyle out of need to find a life she'd always been missing without realizing it.People froze you in place.

More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest. So you had a choice: you could continue a masquerade, or you could give up Its a funny thing, hope. Its not like At 60, Anna Quindlen’s complicated protagonist, Rebecca Winter, is strong of body and mind, but much less so of heart and bank account.

A well-known photographer who changes her lifestyle out of need to find a life she'd always been missing without realizing it.“People froze you in place. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest. So you had a choice: you could continue a masquerade, or you could give up “It’s a funny thing, hope. It’s not like love, or fear, or hate. It’s a feeling you don’t really know you had until it’s gone.”.