Synopsis
The residents of a small coastal town in Florida populate this novel in which a newlywed couple's troubles make up most of the action. When Faye, the wife, is kidnapped and raped, her husband Vic evades his wife's trauma by moving out and seeing other women. Faye undergoes further trauma when a car accident puts her into a coma. She emerges from unconsciousness with brain damage and memory loss, but with the determination to attain a new independence and get on with her life.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1996-11-01 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 20.0 oz |
Publisher's Note
Mary Hood's lyrical, humorous, and down-to-earth novel lays bare marriage with all its intangible dreams and mysteries and reveals the subtle web of personalities and events that characterize a small town. When a brutal accident leaves Faye Parry with permanent amnesia, her new husband, Vic Rios--a sea captain and reformed rake--reverts to his old ways, resulting in an estrangement that seems irreparable.
Industry Reviews
"I dived into Mary Hood's novel...and swam blissfully along in this generous-spirited narrative, set in Florida."
New Yorker - Kennedy Fraser (12/25/1995)
"I like best a novel like this one that transports me into a full and fully human world...It isn't often that so literary a novel is also so passionately positive about the human race, and leaves the reader smiling, proud to be one of its members."
Book Jacket - Doris Betts
"...Hood's skillful prose keeps the action from becoming inflated or false...a big, ambitious novel involving more than a dozen characters. Hood describes their pasts, then fits them like interlocking pieces into her story...They are completely unpredictable and utterly believable...Hood's prose is sometimes annoyingly clever...But 'Familiar Heat' is still a fine book to curl up with."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Janice Greene (12/10/1995)
"Despite Mary Hood's incandescent prose..., her first novel reads like a TV miniseries...Though Hood dishes up intrigue and action, she also digs beneath the surface to explore the relationship between memory and identity and the ironies that suffuse every marriage."
Washington Post Book World - Karen Angel (02/04/1996)
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