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The Kiss (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper)) | 
 enlarge | Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 1473761
Format: Large Print
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.4
ISBN: 0375431322
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780375431326
ASIN: 0375431322
Publication Date: October 23, 2001
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In her 53rd bestselling novel, Danielle Steel explores how a single shattering moment can change lives forever. The Kiss is at once a moving testament to the fragility of life and a breathtaking story about the power of love to heal, to free, to transform, and to make broken spirits whole.
On a warm June evening, a red double-decker bus, full of pasengers, 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's 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, amidst 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 almost beyond repair. In the days and weeks that follow, they slowly, painfully traverse a road to recovery littered with challenges of the 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 Isabell, 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 his core. For both, a tangle of changing relationships and the tragedy of another loss 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 compassionate, 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 yield the most unexpected rewards...and how the longest, most winding journeys can begin with a single kiss.
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 Very predictable September 16, 2008
After reading "The Kiss", I've given up on Danielle Steel. This book is very predictable. Also, the book is longer than it needs to be, as the last several chapters could have been condensed in to one. The same thing is said over and over and it's just a waste of time. I find with Danielle Steel's later novels is that she recycles the same plot, and only changes the character names, and sometimes the setting.
 Second star given grudgingly March 9, 2008
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.
 A memory for the rest of my life December 21, 2006
This was the first book I've read by Danielle Steel, and I must say I'm glad I did. It was a little bit too repeating sometimes, Danielle tells us the same things over and over again, but it's definitely worth reading it anyway. Once I'd got started, it was hard to stop reading it, and I'm a 100 per cent sure that I will remember this story for the rest of my life.
The book is about Isabelle, a warm-hearted and lovely woman who lives an unhappy life in Paris. Her husband seems to hate her, her youngest child, Teddy, is deadly sick and needs her to take care of him and her daughter Sophie is busy living her own life. Isabelle lives for her sick child and has no other choice then to let Gordon, her husband, treat her however he wants to, because she needs him to pay for Teddy's treatment which he'll refuse to do if she'll cause him any trouble. But Isabelle has got one thing she appreciates more then anything else - she has her daily phone calls with Bill.
Bill is also stuck in a loveless marriage and he's afraid to get a divorce, because he thinks that it might hurt his career. He lives in the US, has two daughters and a wife which is constantly unfaithful to him.
Anyhow, Teddy is getting better so Isabelle decides to do something she's never done before - she's going to make a short trip to London to meet Bill there and leave Teddy with his nurses. Everything turns out just fine and they're having a great time, until Bill's limousine gets hit by a bus. Within a few seconds both of them are put in between life and death and now they have to start their long journey back to their old lives. But is it even possible after the things they've experienced together..?
 okay June 22, 2006
yes, the writer seems to repeat herself a lot in the story. i almost thought there were only two characters after reading the first 100 pages. but then it grew better, and even more appealing towards the last 100 pages. it is a decent novel, and i'm glad i read it. it is not as thought-provoking as the two novels of anita shreve i read, but i certainly enjoyed the reading.
Disappointing September 20, 2005
I had never read a Danielle Steel book before, and decided to give her a try, given that she is so popular and has so many books published. I was pretty disappointed. I agree with the other reviewers that the plot is unrealistic; however, if a book is unrealistic but well-written and engaging, I would still like it. I think the biggest problem with this book is the author's excessive repetitiveness. Yes, I get that this character is really cold and unloving---that was already covered 50 pages ago! In addition, character traits could have been better conveyed through situations, rather than simply stating, "so and so was a devoted mother" and repeating this fact again and again and again. These flaws in the author's writing kept me skipping through whole sections of the book. This book did not leave me wanting to read more of Ms. Steel's books. It is an ok book if you like romance and very easy, repetitive reading.
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