Crane Spreads Wings: A Bigamist's Story - Hardcover

Trott, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385492340 ISBN 13: 9780385492348

Verlag: Doubleday, 1998

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The author of The Holy Man confirms her reputation for originality and insight into the nature of love with a novel about a capricious, spirited woman with a passion for t'ai chi and a penchant for bending the truth.

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author of The Holy Man, has now written an ingeniously quirky and completely compelling novel whose compulsively lovable heroine will capture your heart from first page to last.

Effie Crackalbee (a.k.a. Jane Croy), the loving, daring, and generous protagonist of Crane Spreads Wings, is a self-proclaimed T'ai Chi warrior who practices the ancient movements that center her spirit even as she sets out to re-create her life.

When we meet her, she is Jane Croy, and she has just decided to run away from Alan, her husband of one month, because, as she says, he has misrepresented himself.  He's full of hot air--always spouting off--and Jane hates spouters.  Nevertheless, within hours she, too, is misrepresenting herself.  When she runs into Gled Saltonstall, the bearish, slightly pudgy single father of an adorable little boy, she becomes Effie Crackalbee--indeed her given name--and immediately signs on as the boy's nanny for th

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• Verlag: Doubleday
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0385492340
• ISBN 13: 9780385492348
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 222