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About This Book:

Title: The Deep End of the Ocean

Other Available Formats:
Hardcover, 1996
Audio Cassette, 1996
Hardcover, 1996
Paperback, 1997
Audio Cassette, 1999
Paperback, 1999
Prebinding, 1999
Prebinding, 2001

Synopsis
Beth Cappadora, smart-mouthed and disorganized, has considered herself a good mother of her three children. Then her three-year-old son Ben disappears from the hotel while the whole family is visiting Chicago for Beth's 15th high-school reunion. Beth descends into depression, growing apart from her baby daughter and her disturbed son Vincent, who was supposed to have been watching Ben when he disappeared. While she continues her photography career and her husband goes about opening a Chicago restaurant, the Cappadoras' family structure implodes. Vincent becomes more and more guilty over the disappearance, the restaurant succeeds, and the family must move to the very city that they have come to dread. Then something unexpected happens.

Details
Language:        English

Size
Length:        448 Pages
Weight:        0.5 Pounds
Height:         7.3 Inches
Width:          4.3 Inches
Thickness:    1.3 Inches



Publisher Notes
"Watch your brother", says Beth Cappadora to her seven-year-old son, Vincent. She's checking in at her high school reunion in Chicago. Even with a hotel clerk who is, in Beth's estimation, slower than weight loss, it's not more than five minutes before she turns again and asks, "Where's Ben?" It's the moment every mother dreads. Three-year-old Ben is gone. And no one can find him. Despite a police search that will turn into a nation-wide obsession, Ben has vanished, seemingly without a trace. His disappearance will leave Beth frozen on a knife-edge of suppressed agony for nine years and drive a shattering wedge through her marriage to Pat - who, though he is a man of consummate kindness, can do nothing to bring his boy back. It will transform their other son, Vincent, into a delinquent who courts danger in an attempt to break the bell jar of silence that surrounds the whole Cappadora family. Then, just after the Cappadoras move back to Chicago to help start a family restaurant, something so unexpected happens, it changes everything that once seemed true or possible. And perhaps, only perhaps, it will give Beth what she thought was gone forever: a reason to live.



Industry Reviews
"Don't bother predicting the end: there's a plot twist that'll spin you around no matter which way you're looking."
(06/03/1996)
"If there's anything you need to do, get it done before you start reading this book, because once you start reading you will never stop....A touching, humane, and wonderfully written tale of ordinary people caught in the most extraordinary circumstances."
"'The Deep End of the Ocean' burns itself into the memory line by line. It is by turns lyrical and startling, brilliant."
"The pain of Mitchard's story is somewhat leavened by her moving evocation of everyday life--and of people struggling mightily to cope when that life goes awry....This isn't a story of stirring heroics but of lurking darkness, and of one family's slow stumble back into light."
(07/14/1996)
"Ms. Mitchard's real story is about grief and how each member of this tormented family deals with it."
(09/18/1996)


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is The Deep End of the Ocean and it was written by Jacquelyn Mitchard. This edition of The Deep End of the Ocean is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is February 1999 and it has a suggested retail price of $7.99. There are 448 pages in the book and it was published by Signet. The 10 digit ISBN is 0451197747 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780451197740. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.