Glimmerglass: A Novel - Hardcover

Youmans, Marly

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881464910 ISBN 13: 9780881464917

Verlag: Mercer University Press, 2014

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Reseña del editor:

Perhaps it was a sense of estrangement from the everyday that drew Cynthia Sorrel to the village of Cooper Patent. The failed painter was lured by the gatehouse with its seven doors, the lake with its tower, and the magical air of a place that couldn't quite decide whether it was fictional, mythic, or real. The gatehouse should have been a first clue that she was on a journey, and soon she begins to glimpse and then to pursue a figure in the woods near her house, convinced she has seen the Muse. As she reclaims her calling as a painter and moves deeper into the uncanny world of Cooper Patent, Cynthia finds herself at the heart of a labyrinth of mystery. She will have to navigate its dream depths and secrets, brilliant or dark, locked behind a door that opens into the earth. Sebastien Doubinsky writes, ""I cannot recommend an author more than Marly Youmans, whose fantastic prose is absolutely gorgeous and haunting."" Now this ""best-kept secret among contemporary American writers"" (Books & Culture) has scaled the tree of books and plucked twigs of gothic romance, ghost tale, medieval dream vision, and belated coming-of-age story, with a leaf or two from the novel of manners and fantasy. The transformed result, Glimmerglass, is a gift to literature like no other.

Biografía del autor:

Marly Youmans, ""A writer of rare ability"" (Baton Rouge Advocate), is the award-winning author of a dozen books. Recent works include A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage, called ""the finest and the truest period novel I've read in years"" by the late Lucius Shephard; and Thaliad, hailed as ""a work of genius,"" ""amazing, mesmerizing"" by novelist Lee Smith. A native of the Carolinas, Youmans now lives near the mouth of the Susquehanna with her husband and three children.

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• Verlag: Mercer University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0881464910
• ISBN 13: 9780881464917
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224