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Book Description:
A #1 New York Times bestseller, Mitchard's suspenseful and moving novel is now available in trade paperbackMembers who requested this book also requested:
Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story--a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first title chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Both highly suspenseful and deeply moving, The Deep End of the Ocean imagines every mother's worst nightmare--the disappearance of a child--as it explores a family's struggle to endure, even against extraordinary odds. Filled with compassion, humor, and brilliant observations about the texture of real life, here is a story of rare power, one that will touch readers' hearts and make them celebrate the emotions that make us all one.
"Riveting . . . twists that will spin you around." --Newsweek
"A drama with the tension of a thriller that moves deeply into the emotional territory of family ties." --People
"Take a deep breath. . . . This riveting story won't let you come up for air." --US magazine
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Genres:Other Versions of this Book: Audio Cassette, Audio Cassette (Abridged), Paperback, Hardcover, Hardcover
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2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Touching story of a woman whose life is changed when her toddler is kidnapped and found years later. Emotional & a great read.
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1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I was motivated to read this after catching the movie on Oxygen one evening. It's good, very emotional; a wrenching window into two parents who, after their younger son is kidnapped, turn inwards and let their two other children and their family unit wither from neglect. The pain each of the adults and the older son feels is convincingly written and makes you wonder how you would do in the same circumstances. Facts in the movie are changed a bit, as happens often for Hollywood, but basically faithful to the novel. I prefer the book to the film.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Oprah's first Book Club selection. The book was a good read when I was in college, but now, as a mother, the plot (which revolves around a missing child) gives me bad dreams. The writing is excellent, however.
Pat M. from ORADELL, NJ wrote on 5/10/2007...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Very engrossing. Involves a child-napping and its effects on the victim-family, especially the mother, whose depression is truly a mental illness. The family's adjustment years later when the child is ultimately found is no easier than its original adjustment to his loss.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Engrossing and hard to put down. Very real and raw feelings are explored in this book. I truly enjoyed it and want to read more by this author.
Linda S. from STAFFORD, VA wrote on 7/9/2006...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Very Good book, lots of twists and turns that draw you in and tug at your emotions as you read. You feel for each character as you see different perspectives on the disappearance of young Ben Cappadora.
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This book was pretty good. I usually read a book this size in two to three days, but this one took me about a week and a half because it wasn't something that I just couldn't put down. It was a little drawn out at times. Leaves you somewhat wanting more. All in all it was a good book but not in my top ten favorites.
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Tonya T. (Very moving book about the mother of three children...then one of them...three year old Ben is missing
Anna B. from MC MINNVILLE, TN wrote on 3/16/2007...Beth's youngest son, Ben, was kidnapped at age three. As the years go by the family is slowly falling apart. This book has more twists and turns than a snake. A good book. Well worth reading.
Megan T. (It happened in a flash. One minute Beth Cappadora was the happily married mother of three children. The next minute, one of them, her favorite child, three-year-old Ben, was missing. Was he kidnapped? No one knew, and as minutes lengthened into hours, days, weeks, months, years, even the dedicated woman police officer obsessed with the case gave up hope.
So began the slow-motion nightmare for Beth, for her family, for everyone involved in the ultimate testing of the ties that bind people together and the wounds that tear them apart. But suddenly something so unexpected happens, it changes everything. This stunning novel plumbs the depths of one family's pain and hope, evoking love's risks and rewards.
One family,s saga about loss, family ties, with a stunning conclusion makes this book outstanding.
Anne G. from INDIANAPOLIS, IN wrote on 1/18/2007...Oprah Book ClubŪ Selection, September 1996
(From Amazon.com) The horror of losing a child is somehow made worse when the case goes unsolved for nearly a decade, reports Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist Jacquelyn Mitchard in this searing first novel. In it, 3-year-old Ben Cappadora is kidnapped from a hotel lobby where his mother is checking into her 15th high school reunion. His disappearance tears the family apart and invokes separate experiences of anguish, denial, and self-blame. Marital problems and delinquency in Ben's older brother (in charge of him the day of his kidnapping) ensue. Mitchard depicts the family's friction and torment--along with many gritty realities of family life--with the candor of a journalist and compassion of someone who has seemingly been there.
I never saw the movie, so I can't say how it compares. But from lots of experience, I'm sure the movie doesn't hold a candle to the book.
I know there is a movie based on this book, but I have not seen it, and cannot compare the 2. However, take time to read this book. The storyline is firm and pulls you in. Once the characters sink their teeth into you, there is no turning back.
Naomi J. from POWAY, CA wrote on 12/26/2006...This is a moving story of one family who loses a son and the nightmare they go through, the changes it brings to their lives. It is a story of love, pain, hope.