October Suite - Hardcover

Clair, Maxine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375506306 ISBN 13: 9780375506307

Verlag: Random House Inc, 2001

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Book by Clair Maxine

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In her debut novel, the author of the prize-winning short story collection Rattlebone chronicles the troubled relationship between two sisters locked in terrible struggle over the future of a child born illegitimately and abandoned to one and raised by the other. 75,000 first printing.

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r cools to crisp, carries sound farther. Last pears ripen and fall, ferment on the ground; the aroma of their wine mixes with the pungency of leaf smoke from nowhere and everywhere. At nightfall, the wing-song shrill of crickets announces that this season has a natural pathos to it, the brief and flaming brilliance of everything at the climax of life moving toward death.
“October Brown had named herself for all of that."

So begins this beautifully written coming-of-age story about a young woman who struggles to overcome her family’s frightening legacy and keep her own child from similar emotional harm.

It is 1950 and October Brown is a twenty-three-year-old first-year teacher thanking her lucky stars that she found a room in the best boardinghouse for Negro women teachers in Wyandotte County, Kansas. October falls in love with an unhappily married handyman, James Wilson, but when she becomes pregnant, James deserts her. Stunned, and believing that James

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375506306
• ISBN 13: 9780375506307
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 322