The Kiss (Danielle Steel)
by Danielle Steel
List Price:
Our Price: $3.25
You Save: $23.70 (88%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $1.87 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Danielle SteelReader: Joseph Siravo
Edition: Audio Cassette
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Published: 2001-10-23
ISBN: 055352786X
Publisher: Random House Audio
Book Reviews of The Kiss (Danielle Steel)
Book Review: Second star given grudgingly
Summary: 2 Stars
You have to have a little respect for someone who can find a way to say the same thing a hundred different times. Oh my goodness, Steel can create great plots but it boggles my mind that her editors let this repetition go unchecked. Of course, I keep buying this stuff because of its pure fluff value. I love chick lit. This audiobook has had me throwing things at my ipod speakers, though.
Summary of The Kiss (Danielle Steel)
On a warm June evening, a red double-decker bus, full of passengers, speeds down a London street. A few blocks away, a man and a woman climb into a limousine, reveling in a magical evening of dancing and champagne. As their driver pulls into an intersection, the couple shares their first, searching kiss. For a moment, etched in time, all stands still-until, in a flash of metal and glass, their limousine is struck at full speed, crushed under the bus' tremendous weight. And a long journey begins-toward healing, toward hope, toward dreams of an infinite future...Isabelle Forrester is the exquisite wife of a prominent Parisian banker who has long since shut her out of his heart. For lonely years, Isabelle has lived a life of isolation, pouring her passions into caring for her desperately ill son, Teddy, and into making their Paris home as happy as possible for her teenage daughter, Sophie. Isabelle allows herself one secret pleasure: a long-distance friendship by telephone with an American man, a Washington power broker who travels in the highest circles of politics and who, like Isabelle, is trapped in an empty marriage. To Bill Robinson, Isabelle is a godsend, a woman of extraordinary beauty and intellectual curiosity-a kindred spirit who touches him across the miles with her warmth and gentle empathy. Their relationship is a gift, a lifeline that sustains them both through the heartache of marriages they cannot leave and will not betray. Agreeing to meet for a few precious, innocent days in London, Isabelle and Bill find their friendship changing. Then, amid the sudden crash of steel against steel, they are thrust onto a new path, a path fraught with pain but also with possibility.
Now, inside the cool, sterile wards of a London hospital, Isabelle and Bill cling to life, their bodies shattered beyond repair. In the days and weeks that follow, they slowly, painfully traverse a road to recovery littered with challenges of body, spirit, and heart. Together, they must find the strength not only to embrace life again but to face what they have left behind. For Isabelle, a loveless marriage turns into a brutal power struggle. For Bill, a time of healing exposes wounds that cut deeper than steel and realities that will test him to the core. For both, a tangle of changing relationships and the tradegy of anotherloss conspire to separate them once again. And this time they could lose each other forever.
In a novel that is as compelling as it is passionate, Danielle Steel weaves a story of courage in the face of unimaginable loss. With the grace of a master storyteller, she explores the strength it takes to conquer our greatest fears, showing us how the toughest choices can yeild the most unexpected rewards...and how the longest, most winding journeys can begin with a single kiss.
General Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in General Books
Rogueby Danielle Steel
Brilliance Audio Unabridged; Published: 2008-06-24; Audio Cassette; Book
Best price: $23.85
Price in other shops:
A Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. Salinger
Cram Cassettes Study Guides; Published: 1989-04; Audio Cassette; Book
Price in other shops:
Daisy Fay and the Miracle ManRandom House Audio; Published: 1992-08-18; Audio Cassette; Book
Price in other shops:
Brideshead Revisitedby Evelyn Waugh
Caedmon; Published: 2000-11-01; Audio Cassette; Book
Best price: $25.87
Price in other shops:
The Grapes of Wrathby John Steinbeck
Penguin Audio; Published: 1998-09-01; Audio Cassette; Book
Best price: $49.95
To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper Lee
Audio Partners; Published: 1991-05; Audio Cassette; Book
Best price: $64.99
Sailby James Patterson, Howard Roughan
Hachette Audio; Published: 2008-06-09; Audio Cassette; Book
Best price: $20.95
Price in other shops:
Odd Hours (Odd Thomas) (Odd Thomas)by Dean Koontz
Brilliance Audio Unabridged; Published: 2008-05-20; Audio Cassette; Book
Best price: $24.92
Price in other shops:
Brain Lockby Jeffrey M. Schwartz
HarperAudio; Published: 1997-12-01; Audio Cassette; Book
Best price: $6.80
Price in other shops:
Pearl (Classics on Cassette)by John Steinbeck
Highbridge Audio; Published: 1994-04-01; Audio Cassette; Book
Best price: $10.83
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
Special Deliveryby Danielle Steel
Dell; Published: 2008-07-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.52
Price in other shops:
Lone Eagle (Danielle Steel)by Danielle Steel, Ron Mclarty
Published: 2001-04-10; Audio Cassette; Book
Best price: $6.58
Price in other shops:
Sistersby Danielle Steel
Delta; Published: 2008-04-29; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.00
Price in other shops:
Sunset in St. Tropezby Danielle Steel
Dell; Published: 2003-06-03; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.01
Price in other shops:
H.R.H.by Danielle Steel
Dell; Published: 2008-08-26; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.23
Price in other shops:
The House on Hope Streetby Danielle Steel
Published: 2000-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $2.99
Price in other shops:
Leap of Faithby Danielle Steel
Published: 2001-06-12; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $5.00
Price in other shops:
Answered Prayers (Random House Large Print)by Danielle Steel
Published: 2002-10-29; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $16.79
Price in other shops:
The Cottageby Danielle Steel
Dell; Published: 2008-09-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.20
Price in other shops:
The Weddingby Danielle Steel
Dell; Published: 2008-07-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.45
Price in other shops: