{"product_id":"buy-the-violet-hour-katherine-hill-conf20260420241","title":"The Violet Hour (Katherine Hill)","description":"\u003ch1\u003e The Violet Hour \u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e About Book \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Publisher: Viking: Penguin UK \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Published date: 2014 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pages: 368 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e isbn: 9780670922451 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e Condition \u0026amp; Size \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Size: Format C (13.8 x 21.6 \/ 14.0 x 21.6 cm) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book Type: Paperback \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\nCondition: Excellent \u003cbr\u003e\nComments: \n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003e Summary\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nFor a moment that afternoon, it was only woman and water, the Bay in all its sickening glory squaring itself for a fight.\n\n\nLife hasn't always been perfect, but for Abe and Cassandra Green, an afternoon on the San Francisco Bay might be as good as it gets. He's a doctor piloting his new sailing boat. She's a sculptor finally getting a bit of recognition. Their beautiful daughter Elizabeth is off to Harvard at the end of the summer. But then there is a terrible row. Cassandra has been unfaithful. In a fit of insanity, Abe throws himself off the boat.\n\n\nA love story that begins with the end of a marriage, The Violet Hour follows a 21st century American family through past and present, from a lavish New York wedding to the family funeral home in suburban Washington, from a drunken PTA party to a scene of unexpected public violence.\n\n\nIn this resonant odyssey of youth, middle age, ambition and loss, intimacy is fragile and the search for gratification breeds destruction. Here is a family ripped apart by individual desires. And here is a family possibly reborn.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hill, Katherine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43038647189581,"sku":"CONF20260526","price":99.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/3856\/4685\/files\/9780670922451_20260523_204823.jpg?v=1779792863","url":"https:\/\/readmatter.co.za\/products\/buy-the-violet-hour-katherine-hill-conf20260420241","provider":"Readmatter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}