Sunday's Silence - Softcover

Nahai, Gina Barkhordar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684866420 ISBN 13: 9780684866420

Verlag: Scribner, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Gina Nahai

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Reseña del editor:

From the author of the mesmerising MOONLIGHT ON THE AVENUE OF FAITH, long-listed for the Orange Prize, comes an unforgettable story about religious fervour and extreme love The haunting story of Blue, married at fourteen to a professor twenty-seven years her senior, she enters the society of the Holiness Serpent Handlers of Appalachia, a society of religious extremes and cruelty, of mystery and faith. A society where people spend their free-time searching for large, poisonous snakes to dance with at their religious meetings. Over the years, Blue becomes a High Priestess of the Serpent Handlers, frightened of nothing, she desperately risks her life by drinking poison and handling the most poisonous of the snakes in the hope that she might find peace she craves.

Biografía del autor:

Gina Nahai lives in Beverly Hills with her husband and 3 children. She is the author of THE CRY OF THE PEACOCK and MOONLIGHT ON THE AVENUE OF FAITH (long-listed for the Orange Prize). Her next novel, SUNDAY'S SILENCE, is scheduled for publication in Spring 2002.

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• Verlag: Scribner
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0684866420
• ISBN 13: 9780684866420
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 309