Still Life with Bread Crumbs Author:Anna Quindlen Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she dis... more »covers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.
Brilliantly written, powerfully observed, Still Life with Bread Crumbs is a deeply moving and often very funny story of unexpected love, and a stunningly crafted journey into the life of a woman, her heart, her mind, her days, as she discovers that life is a story with many levels, a story that is longer and more exciting than she ever imagined.« less
This was a great story. I loved the development of the main character and how her life was changed by the good people she came to know. The more I read, the harder it was to put it down.
Anna Quindlen just might be my new favorite author. This is the first book I've read by her, and her writing is wonderful. She can create characters with amazing back stories that brings them to life. You will feel you know them personally. I have been reading another of her books, Blessings, in tandem with this one, and have to say the same applies to the characters in that book as well. Love this author's writing! D.