The Courts of Love: Stories Tag: Winner of National Book Award - Hardcover

Gilchrist, Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316314781 ISBN 13: 9780316314787

Verlag: Little, Brown, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Gilchrist Ellen

Über diesen Titel

Reseña del editor

Nora Jane, a former wild girl turned happily married mother of twins, finds herself on the brink of returning to college and facing such challenges as a new singing career, another pregnancy, the return of an old boyfriend, and the assassination of a visiting poet. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

Contraportada

The Court of Love opens with a series of stories about Nora Jane Whittington, who, once upon a time long ago, was a runaway teenage hipple. In a famous Gilchrist story she dressed as a nun and robbed a bar in New Orleans. Now, happily married and the mother of twins, Nora Jane returns to college and finds herself faced with a series of disasters that threaten her blissful life: a chance encounter between her husband and an old boyfriend, who fathered one of the twins; the assassination of a visiting writer; and a camping trip that nearly proves fatal. The resolution of these complications, aided by a mysterious visit from Leonardo da Vinci, culminates in the adaptation of two waifs, the marriage of an old friend, and the introduction of two new families into Gilchrist's galaxy of characters. The nine stories that follow, collectivity entitled "Past", explore the hazards of recapturing and reviving old affairs. Using new and familiar characters, these stories shed new light on the oldest and most powerful emotion.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Little, Brown
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0316314781
• ISBN 13: 9780316314787
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300