Quiet Dell - Brossura

Phillips, Jayne Anne

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0224099361 ISBN 13: 9780224099363

Casa editrice: Yellow Jersey Press, 2014

Riassunto

In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a widow with three children, is lonely and pressed for money after the sudden death of her husband. She begins to receive seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man named Harry Powers, who ultimately promises to marry her and to care for her and her children. Asta agrees to go with him to West Virginia to see his house there, and then to bring her children. Weeks later, all are dead.

Emily Thornhill, a bold, independent journalist, one of the few women in the Chicago press, covers the case and becomes deeply invested in understanding what happens to this beautiful family - especially the highly imaginative youngest girl, Annabel - and determined to make sure that Powers is convicted. She also falls in love with the Chicago banker who funds the investigation, wracked by guilt himself for not saving Asta from her tragic end.

Quiet Dell is mesmerising, the retelling of a grisly crime at a moment in American history when women were powerless and vulnerable and newspapers were just beginning to make national stories of local crimes. It is a tour de force of obsession and imagination.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

From one of America's most celebrated novelists, the spectacularly riveting story, based on fact, of a 1931 multiple murder by a conman who preyed on widows - a story that has haunted Phillips since childhood.

L'autore:

Jayne Anne Phillips, born and raised in West Virginia, is the author of four previous novels, Lark and Termite, MotherKind, Shelter, and Machine Dreams, and two widely anthologised collections of stories, Fast Lanes and Black Tickets. Lark and Termite, winner of the Heartland Prize, was a Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Prix de Médici Étranger. Phillips is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Bunting Fellowship, the Sue Kaufman Prize and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She is the Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the MFA Programme at Rugters-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. She divides her time between Boston, New York and New Jersey.

www.jayneannephillips.com

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Yellow Jersey Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0224099361
• ISBN 13: 9780224099363
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352