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The Pact by Jodi Picoult (Paperback)

The Pact by Jodi Picoult (Paperback)

A Love Story
by Picoult, Jodi
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    Em Gold is in love and everything in her life is wonderful, until she finds out she is pregnant and decides she cannot live. She persuades her boyfriend to shoot her, and this story explores the family histories and court room scene when he is accused.
 
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A teenager named Em Gold falls in love with the son of family friends, and her resulting pregnancy turns her happiness to despair. She persuades her boyfriend to shoot her, and he is, predictably, accused of murder. The two families' histories are explored in flashbacks, and the novel ends with a stirring courtroom scene.

Author:
Picoult, Jodi
ISBN:
9780061150142
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
496
Publish Date:
09/01/2006
Publisher:
Avon Books

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    • sad but true

      this reminds me of my young years after my granny died. i was 16, could not cope; she was gone and was not coming back and i had lost my soulmate indeed. the years passed, i married, but still time has not lessened pain that youngsters feel more deeply than adults do. picoult is a great writer indeed.

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      I could not put this book down. Jodi Picoult is amazing. I have never read a book of hers that I did not like. This book is a must! I liked it so much I read it twice.

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      I liked this book. Kinda sad and frustrating. But overall, it's a good book!

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      Like all of Picoult's books, the twists and turns this books take are wild. In the end you feel like you've really lived this situation with the characters. Not one of the most memoriable of all of her books that I have read but it was still great.

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  • Teenage suicide is the provocative topic that Picoult plumbs, with mixed results, in her fifth novel. Popular high-school swimming star Chris Harte and talented artist Em Gold bonded as infants; their parents have been next-door neighbors and best friends for 18 years. When they fall in love, everyone is ecstatic. Everyone, it turns out, except for Em, who finds that sex with Chris feels almost incestuous. Her emotional turmoil, compounded by pregnancy, which she keeps secret, leads to depression, despair and a desire for suicide, and she insists that Chris prove his love by pulling the trigger. The gun is fired in the first paragraph, and so the book opens with a jolt of adrenaline. But Picoult stumbles in delineating both sets of parents' responses to the tragedy. Unconvincing behavior and dialogue inappropriate to the situation (plus, most importantly, the fact that the parents fail to discuss crucial topics) never touch the essence of bereavement and thus destroy credibility. Picoult redeems herself in flashbacks that reveal the two marital relationships and the personalities of both couples; and she sensitively explores the question of how well parents can ever know their children. After Chris is accused of murder and jailed, the narrative acquires impressive authenticity and suspense, with even the minor characters evoked with Picoult's keen eye for telling detail. The courtroom scenes (reminiscent of Picoult's 1996 novel, Mercy), are taut and well paced. Readers may remain unconvinced, however, that an intelligent young man like Chris would not have sought some help rather than respond to his lover's desperate request. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections; foreign rights sold in Germany, France, Poland and Norway. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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