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A chilling literary novel about a nomadic young woman who becomes tangled in the stories of her past and the search for a wild boy.
Teenage runaway Jamie Hall – entangled by circumstance and poverty – seems incapable of escaping the mountain-and-valley watershed that was the birthplace of her maternal grandparents. Working as a housekeeper for Margaret, a retired photographer who leaves behind a pictorial chronicle of the valley’s history, Jamie finds herself trapped in a town–and amongst a group of locals–unable to shake the relentless grip of the past.
With an unforgettable cast of characters and gorgeous, piercing prose, The Housekeeper is at once a poetic meditation on landscape and a page-turning thriller.
Teenage runaway Jamie Hall – entangled by circumstance and poverty – seems incapable of escaping the mountain-and-valley watershed that was the birthplace of her maternal grandparents. Working as a housekeeper for Margaret, a retired photographer who leaves behind a pictorial chronicle of the valley’s history, Jamie finds herself trapped in a town–and amongst a group of locals–unable to shake the relentless grip of the past.
With an unforgettable cast of characters and gorgeous, piercing prose, The Housekeeper is at once a poetic meditation on landscape and a page-turning thriller.
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“Beautifully written. . . . Wallace’s prose is lush and spare, and she handles both the grotesque and the gorgeous with equal skill.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Adroitly mixing descriptions of the exterior landscape’s harsh beauty with evocations of her characters’ interior lives, Melanie Wallace has produced a spare, gripping novel that ventures into the territory of first-rate literary fiction.”
—Wall Street Journal
“Harsh and lyrical. . . . The landscape is one of Wallace’s main accomplishments here. The description of the old mill town Dyers Corner [is] thick with detail that never lets up.”
—Esquire.com
L'autore:
—Publishers Weekly
“Adroitly mixing descriptions of the exterior landscape’s harsh beauty with evocations of her characters’ interior lives, Melanie Wallace has produced a spare, gripping novel that ventures into the territory of first-rate literary fiction.”
—Wall Street Journal
“Harsh and lyrical. . . . The landscape is one of Wallace’s main accomplishments here. The description of the old mill town Dyers Corner [is] thick with detail that never lets up.”
—Esquire.com
Melanie Wallace is the author of Blue Horse Dreaming. She and her husband live in Myloi, an agrarian village below the Ohi mountain range in Greece, and in Paris. The Housekeeper is her second novel, following 2003’s Blue Horse Dreaming.
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- EditoreAnchor Canada
- Data di pubblicazione2007
- ISBN 10 0385664117
- ISBN 13 9780385664110
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine304
- Valutazione libreria
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