Nora, Nora: A Novel - Rilegato

Siddons, Anne Rivers

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 006017613X ISBN 13: 9780060176136

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2000

Riassunto

When smoking, swearing, and free-spirited Nora Findlay arrives in provincial 1961 Lytton, Georgia, she shakes up the town with her wild ways and further stuns residents when her shocking secret gets out.. 250,000 first printing.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Anne Rivers Siddons's bestselling novels include Nora, Nora; Sweetwater Creek; Islands; and Fox's Earth. She is also the author of the nonfiction work John Chancellor Makes Me Cry. She and her husband divide their time between Charleston, South Carolina, and Brooklin, Maine.

Dalla quarta di copertina

I set this story back in my own dreaming, small-town South, in my own time, 1961: that suspended time swung between two epochs that shaped America for good and all. I think I chose it because that turbulent transition was the greatest epiphany of my life, a crossing from the sweet, insular world I knew to another one, volatile and frightening and yet entirely necessary and right.

--Anne Rivers Siddons

Peyton is not ready to share her widowed father with anyone, let alone a barely remembered cousin who just rolled into town, a cousin who smokes cigarettes and drives a pink Thunderbird. However, her father seems to like Nora well enough, and she does make for good conversation at the Losers Club, and prim Aunt Augusta hates her, which raises Nora slightly in Peyton's esteem. Maybe she isn't so bad -- maybe Nora is just what quiet Lytton, Georgia, needs this summer.

The whole household is revitalized by Nora's energy, and when she takes a job teaching the first integrated honors class at the local high school, it looks as if she might stay on forever. But soon it becomes clear that something is troubling Nora deeply. Peyton believes that whatever it is, it must be more than the snide comments made by neighbors who don't like her "unsouthern" ways. Nora always laughs that off. It has to be something from her past that's bothering her, something she is running away from. When the shocking truth comes to light, it stuns the residents of their small segregated town. It also teaches Peyton the enormous cost of loving -- and the necessity of doing it anyway.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 006017613X
• ISBN 13: 9780060176136
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 263
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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