Nightingales of Troy: Stories of One Family's Century - Softcover

Fulton, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393335445 ISBN 13: 9780393335446

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009

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Book by Fulton Alice

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Starred Review. Every element in this collection of scintillating linked short stories is surprising, pleasurable, and stealthily affecting. --Donna Seaman"

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In 1908, Mamie Garrahan faces childbirth aided by her arsenic-eating sister-in-law Kitty, a nun who grows opium poppies, and a doctor who prescribes Bayer Heroin. "In the twentieth century, I believe there are no saints left," Mamie remarks. But her daughters and granddaughter test this notion with far-reaching consequences. Kitty's arsenic reappears sixty years later in the hands of her distraught niece. A schoolgirl's passion for the Beatles and Melville a passion both lonely and funny shapes her life. Each decade is illuminated by endearingly eccentric characters: an anorexic waitress falls for a wealthy college boy in the jazz age...an exuberant young nurse questions science during the Depression...a homely seamstress designs a scandalous dress in the 1950s. The Nightingales of Troy, the first fiction collection by an acclaimed American poet, creates a vividly palpable sense of time and place. Alice Fulton's memorable characters confront the deepest dilemmas with bravery and abiding love."

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• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0393335445
• ISBN 13: 9780393335446
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256